By RFIPosted on 19-01-2020Modified on 19-01-2020 at 08:32

Anger of the two unions of magistrates against the Malian government. In a joint communiqué published on Friday January 17 in Bamako, and during a meeting the next day with journalists, the Autonomous Union of the Magistrature (SAM) and the Free Union of the Magistrates (Sylima), denounced "the interference of government in court cases ".

According to the magistrates of the SAM and Sylima unions, this blow of anger against the Malian government is due to the conditions of announcement of the new postponement of the trial of Aya Amadou Sanogo , head of the ex-junta in detention and who was to be tried on 13 January with other soldiers for "assassinations and aiding and abetting of assassination", in the case of about twenty military red berets in 2012 and found in a mass grave in Kati, near the Malian capital.

Informed by a tweet

The two unions claim to have " curiously learned " on social networks this report by a tweet . " The reasons for this postponement , write the magistrates always citing the government, would be due to major constraints related to the preservation of public order and cohesion within the armed forces ".

Wrathful, angry, the magistrates invite the government to respect the separation of powers. Clearly, it is not for the executive to announce this postponement. Bourama Kariba Konaté, acting president of the Autonomous Magistrates Union (SAM) says it: " We therefore condemn with vigor and with the greatest firmness this attitude of the government of Mali which swears with republican orthodoxy since it gives the impression that 'justice to orders '.

Surviving residence

Amadou Sanogo , according to our information, is still in Bamako and is more under house arrest than in a prison.

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