Birama Touré case: former Malian intelligence boss Moussa Diawara arrested
A Malian soldier between Mopti and Djenne in February 2020 (Illustrative image) © MICHELE CATTANI / AFP
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Twist in the affair of the Malian journalist Birama Touré, who has been missing for 5 years.
General Moussa Diawara, former director of State Security (the intelligence services of Mali) was indicted and placed under arrest warrant by a judge of the court of Commune 4 of Bamako for "
complicity in kidnapping, kidnapping , of torture
”this Thursday, July 29.
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With our correspondent in Bamako,
Serge Daniel
Wednesday, July 28 in the evening, General Moussa Diawara receives at his home a summons from the dean of the investigating judges of the tribunal de grande instance of Commune 4 of Bamako for the next day.
He is rather serene according to a witness.
This Thursday, he shows up and things are going rather quickly.
He is informed that this is the case of the disappearance of Malian journalist Birama Touré.
The former head of the intelligence services of Mali is indicted and placed under arrest warrant for "
complicity in kidnapping, kidnapping, torture
".
In the same case, an international arrest warrant was
issued against Karim Keïta
, former deputy and son of former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
Five years without news from the journalist
For 5 years, we have not heard from the journalist who worked at the
Sphinx
, a Malian investigative weekly.
According to press reports, he was killed.
How can the former head of the Malian secret service be affected by this affair?
Malian newspapers affirmed at the time that Birama Touré would have, after his kidnapping, stayed for a while in the premises of the intelligence services of Mali.
The inquiries will probably be able to give a definitive answer.
In the meantime, the court which indicted General Moussa Diawara recalls that at this stage, the presumption of innocence must be respected.
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