They were the first to be tried for the attack on Garissa University in 2015. A Nairobi court on Wednesday (June 19th) found three men guilty of helping the perpetrators of the killings, one of the most killer of the country, committed in northeastern Kenya. The attack perpetrated by Somali Islamists Shebab had killed 148 people.
The sentences of the three culprits will be pronounced on July 3, said Judge Francis Andayi, who also acquitted a fourth defendant. The three men belonged to the Shebab terrorist group.
The judge found that the prosecution had proved beyond "reasonable doubt" the responsibility of Mohamed Ali Abikar, Hassan Edin Hassan and Tanzanian Rashid Charles Mberesero, guilty of "conspiracy to commit a terrorist act". He did not detail how the three men helped the attackers, but said they were "aware of the blow."
The attackers and the brains of the attack are dead
At dawn on April 2, 2015, a commando entered the university by opening fire at random, before entering the university residence, separating Muslims and non-Muslims, leaving the first and keeping the second, Christian students in majority.
The four attackers had been killed in the assault of the security forces. The alleged brain of the operation, Mohamed Mohamud aka "Kuno", a Kenyan former teacher in a Koranic school in Garissa, was killed in 2016 in southwestern Somalia.
With AFP