Guinea: resumption in Conakry of the trial of the massacres of September 28, 2009
Relatives of victims of the September 2009 massacre gather inside the new Conakry courthouse on September 28, 2022. AFP - CELLOU BINANI
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Resumption this Monday, October 10 of the debates on the trial of the massacres of September 28, 2009 in Guinea in Conakry.
The main defendants had asked for special treatment.
The defense had requested the placement under house arrest of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, president of the junta at the time of the events which left at least 157 dead, missing and many women raped.
The substantive discussions have nevertheless begun.
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With our correspondent in Conakry,
Mouctar Bah
Initially, the court rejected the request for provisional release of the defendants imprisoned on September 27, the day before the opening of the trial.
She also rejected Moussa Dadis Camara's request.
The lawyers for the former president of the junta had challenged his detention, and requested either his release or his placement under house arrest, citing the respect due to a former head of state.
The lawyers of another main defendant,
Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, alias "Toumba"
, former head of the protection unit of
Moussa Dadis Camara
, had meanwhile requested the medical evacuation of their client - arrested in December 2016 in Dakar and extradited to Guinea on March 17, 2017 - ill according to them.
He had indeed appeared very diminished at the
opening of the trial
on September 28.
Colonel
Moussa Tiegboro Camara
, then Secretary of State for Special Services and the Fight Against Organized Crime and the Fight Against Drugs, was the first to appear.
He denied the myriad of crimes of which he is accused, in particular: assassinations, rapes and acts of torture and pillage committed during the repression of an opposition demonstration on September 28, 2009 and the following days.
The trial continues and it is not yet known when Moussa Dadis Camara and Tumba Diakité will appear.
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To read also: RFI archives on the violence of September 28, 2009 in Guinea
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