DRC: rebound in Kamerhe trial

The prosecutor demanded in this so-called "Hundred Days" twenty years of forced labor against Vital Kamerhe. REUTERS / Baz Ratner

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The Kinshasa-Gombe High Court will deliver its judgment this Saturday in the trial involving Vital Kamerhe, director of cabinet of Félix Tshisekedi, and two other defendants in the case of the management of funds intended for the projects of prefabricated houses projects of the emergency of the President of the Republic. This Friday in Kinshasa, this case experienced another episode. Kamerhe's lawyers applied to the Constitutional Court for the latter to rule on the constitutionality of the required forced labor sentence against their client. This was followed by exchanges of correspondence between the two jurisdictions.

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In a letter sent on June 19, the Chief Registrar of the Constitutional Court asked the Kinshasa-Gombe Tribunal de Grande Instance to transmit to him "in state" and "all discontinuing cases", the judicial file of the president's chief of staff. of the Republic, Vital Kamerhe.

This request follows a request by Kamerhe's lawyers who wanted the court to rule on the constitutionality of the required sentence against their client. The prosecutor requested in this so-called "Hundred Days" case twenty years of forced labor against Vital Kamerhe.

Everything went quickly this Friday afternoon and the response from the High Court of Kinshasa-Gombe was immediate. The court clerk informed his colleague at the Constitutional Court of the “impossibility” to forward this file to him. He explains that everything has been sent to the president of the chamber since June 13.

The court will meet tomorrow Saturday. The hearing will indeed take place, as announced by the judge during the oral argument.

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