September 28 trial: the last hearing of "Toumba"
Trial of September 28 in Guinea: Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité nicknamed "Toumba" was at the helm, this Monday, October 24, 2022. © Matthias Raynal / RFI
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Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité known as "Toumba", Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's former aide-de-camp has just spent two weeks being heard as an accused on the merits following the events of September 28, 2009. The killing was qualified as a crime against the humanity by human rights organizations.
For a month, on October 28, 2022, the 11 soldiers all close to Captain Camara have been on trial in Conacry.
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With our correspondent in Conakry
,
Moktar Bah
Seven interrogation sessions
on the merits by around twenty defense lawyers and civil parties.
During this period,
Sidiki Diakité Toumba
appeared tired, but in his role sometimes as a public entertainer or sometimes exasperated by the attitude of the lawyers, he has so far won the battle of public opinion.
“
He returned to the court the experience and everything that it did not know.
It was painted black, as he said.
So he first seeks to obtain the verdict of public opinion.
And I believe that this phase is about to be won
, ”said Maître Paul Yomba Kourouma, defense lawyer.
Wednesday's audition was the last for Sidiki Diakité.
According to his lawyer, his exhausted client gave his impressions.
“
The fight for conviction, the persuasion of the court since he has decided to tell the truth, because knowing that only the truth can set him free.
The court apparently seems confident, especially the civil parties who, in reality, have suffered damage and who are in the process of renouncing their actions one after the other
”, comments Me Paul Yomba Kourouma.
Despite the judge's call to order, the lawyers for the civil parties or the defense insisted on asking questions in a loop.
For observers, it is the presence of cameras in the courtroom that transform this trial into a television show.
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