By RFPosted on 20-11-2019Modified on 20-11-2019 at 10:15
Ambient overheated, Tuesday, November 19 in Bamako, during the trial of a young man who murdered last January an imam of a mosque in the capital. Several hundred people, members of Muslim associations, demonstrated in court to demand the death penalty for the alleged murderer who would not be in possession of all his faculties. After a few hours of hearings, the court sentenced the defendant to death.
Before the opening of the trial, at the call of Muslim associations, hundreds of women and men stormed the edge of the Bamako court. " Death penalty for the murderer, A llah akbar ! Could we hear? Law enforcement forces were forced to double-close the entrance gate of the courtyard to avoid overflowing.
Before the trial begins, religious dignitaries arrive in the courtroom. One of them publicly demands the application of the death penalty. Then the court enters ... The situation rather tense at the helm.
The accused Moussa Guindo admits that he murdered Imam Abdul Aziz Yattabaré on 19 January when he was going to the mosque. Only for one of his lawyers was it established that the accused was not in possession of all his mental faculties. But the verdict falls: Moussa Guindo is sentenced to death for murder.
Part of the hall cries victory and senior officials of Muslim associations present, claim strict enforcement of the sentence. In Mali, the death penalty is not abolished, but a moratorium decreed that it has not been applied for many years.
Voices rise and question, in this case, the Malian justice was influenced by religion?
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