Guinea: legal proceedings initiated against Alpha Condé and 26 officials for blood crimes
Former Guinean President Alpha Condé, here in November 2017. The Attorney General announced May 4, 2022 charges against ex-President Alpha Condé and 26 former senior officials under his presidency.
They are notably accused of assassinations, acts of torture and kidnappings.
PHILIPPE WOJAZER / POOL / AFP
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In Guinea Conakry, the attorney general announced this Wednesday, May 4, prosecutions against ex-president Alpha Condé and 26 former senior officials under his presidency.
They are notably accused of assassinations, acts of torture and kidnappings.
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These lawsuits were launched following the violence which surrounded the project of a 3ᵉ term of Alpha Condé in 2019, and in particular the repression, often brutal, of the demonstrations which had surrounded the referendum allowing to modify the Constitution so that Alpha Condé stay in power.
The crisis had resulted in dozens of deaths, mostly civilians.
The FNDC collective, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, had led this angry movement for months.
It was he who filed a complaint against Alpha Condé and 26 former senior civil and military officials of his regime.
Responsible today targeted by the prosecutor.
Among them are the former President of the Constitutional Court, Mohamed Lamine Bangoura and the former Defense Minister, Mohamed Diané, General Ansoumane Camara who was director general of the police at the time.
In this group of 27, some are already targeted by legal proceedings, but for alleged acts of embezzlement.
There, we are in criminal proceedings, with charges of murder, enforced disappearance, torture, sexual assault, looting, kidnapping or even forcible confinement.
Prosecutor Alphonse Charles Wright is therefore launching an investigation with already evidence, images, videos, which have been provided to him by the FNDC.
It is also based on reports from international NGOs such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.
The magistrate returns to the project of 3rd term of Alpha Condé, in violation of the Constitution.
He evokes the belligerent remarks of Alpha Condé and his entourage during political meetings, explicitly calling on his populations to confrontation.
He also cites the total impunity from which the security forces benefited to put down the demonstrations in blood.
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