By RFPosted on 22-11-2018Modified on 22-11-2018 at 21:51

This Thursday was the second and final day of the appearance of the former president of the Burkina Faso Bar Association in the context of the trial of the ex-putschists: Mamadou Traoré is accused of complicity in attacking the State security, murders, assault and battery.

During the September 2015 coup against the transitional government, he was seen by several witnesses at the camp of the former presidential security regiment during the night. For the prosecutor, the former president of the bar had played the role of legal adviser to the alleged sponsor of the coup, General Gilbert Diendéré, then chief of staff and special man of confidence of then President Blaise Compaore.

But for the defense lawyers, their client was present at the camp following a mission of the current president of ECOWAS at the time of the facts. Indeed, the lawyers of the former president, including his counterparts in Niger and Cameroon, stress that Master Mamadou Traoré was at the camp of the former presidential security regiment to bring the message of Senegalese President Macky Sall to the General Gilbert Diendéré. According to the former barrister's lawyers, there are contradictions between the various time slots during which their client was seen at the camp of the perpetrators of the abduction of the transitional authorities. " Suspicions are not evidence " slice master Moussa Coulibaly.

But for the floor, it is clear that through his actions, the former president helped and assisted General Gilbert Diendéré, including his presence in the delegation of alleged coup d'état during the meeting with the emissaries of ECOWAS. " We do not want to burden anyone. These are facts, "insists the military prosecutor, who maintains that Mamadou Traore was the" legal adviser "of General Gilbert Diendéré.

There have been heated discussions between some civil party lawyers and their defense lawyer. The former accused the defense of trying to remove the former president of the case in the name of the confraternity. Anything that was not the taste of Mamadou Traore's advice.

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