Benin: an official of the opposition party Democrats placed under a committal
Bio Dramane Tidjani, a prominent local figure in the party, is being prosecuted for "association of criminals and terrorist acts".
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A local official of the opposition party Democrats is being held at the Missérété remand center on the outskirts of Porto-Novo pending trial.
It is the Court of repression of economic offenses and terrorism (Criet) which ordered Monday night his placement under arrest warrant for "criminal association and terrorist acts".
His lawyer and his party denounce imaginary facts and demand his immediate release.
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With our correspondent in Cotonou
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Jean-Luc Aplogan
Bio Dramane Tidjani, a prominent local figure in the party, is being prosecuted for "association of criminals and terrorist acts".
His troubles began on February 22 with a first hearing at the Court for the Repression of Economic Offenses and Terrorism (Criet) followed by several days in police custody.
Monday when he returns to Criet, the chamber of freedoms sends him to prison with one of his collaborators suspected of having made the phone of his boss disappear.
On the justice side, it's total radio silence.
Except that in his last report of the Council of Ministers, Alain Orounla, the spokesperson for the government, declared: "
Some politicians are working to instrumentalize populations, to forge criminal links with mafia networks in order to provoke unrest. in our country.
It is in this context that the PS undertook to listen to certain people whose reprehensible behavior and suspicious activity require that they be explained in court.
"
All this is imaginary, denounces Me Renaud Agbodjo, he defends the accused: "
Mr. Bio Dramane Tidjani is not involved either
directly or indirectly
in any terrorist activity.
You cannot be a terrorist and respond without assistance to a summons from a special prosecutor.
It is an abusive pursuit of a politician owned.
"
The Democrats party says its activist is a political hostage.
It is not known when he will be tried, no date of appearance has been communicated.
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