By RFIPalled on 26-08-2019Modified on 26-08-2019 at 04:30
After 18 months of debate, the defense pleadings were completed last Friday at the trial of the failed coup of September 2015. The court will form Monday, August 26, questions from which judges will answer if such an accused is guilty of such charge and if there are extenuating or aggravating circumstances.
After more than a year of debates , sometimes tense, on the procedure and the events related to the failed coup of September 2015, these issues will be presented to the parties on Monday.
This is a very important step, because it is on the basis of these questions that the court will say whether such an accused is guilty of the facts alleged against him and whether there are extenuating or aggravating circumstances.
" It is from these questions that we can say what we are waiting for and hope for after this trial, " said Olivier Yelkouni, one of the defense lawyers.
Maitre Guy Hervé Ka, one of the victims' lawyers, is very pleased with the holding of the trial . " Today, we know who did what and especially why, " he says, calling the court to " do justice ". And he continues, " It would be disappointing if the truth of the judge does not conform to the truth of the facts ."
For the last day of the oral proceedings, Zalyatou Aouoba, one of the defense lawyers, once again hammered out that " the prosecution has not been able to present a coherent file ". She emphasized " the lack of ballistic expertise to determine the origin of bullets that killed or injured " victims.
For his last speech at the helm, Mr. Hermann Yameogo, one of the accused denounced " a political trial ". " This trial is based on untruths about the nature of the trial itself, its objectives, the charges against most of the accused, " he said.
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