Trial of September 28 in Guinea: Colonel Goumou claims to have played no role

The opening of the September 28 trial in Conakry, September 28, 2022. © CELLOU BINANI/AFP

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In Guinea, the trial of the massacres of September 28, 2009 in Conakry continues.

Tuesday, January 31, Colonel Blaise Goumou was called to the stand for the fourth time.

This gendarmerie officer and former military prosecutor faces the lawyers of the civil parties.

They take turns trying to confuse this former member of the special services, the brigade responsible for the fight against organized crime, drugs and organized crime.

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With our correspondent in Conakry,

The version of the facts unfolded on Tuesday by Colonel Goumou,

, heavily charges Commander Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, known as

, and his men who, according to him, fired into the air as soon as they arrived in the stadium enclosure.

The former military prosecutor claims to have left the scene at that time.

At the helm, he explains that he saw neither injured women nor raped women, statements which provoked anger in the room.

Colonel Goumou maintains that he played no role in what happened.

He also claims to have seen at the stadium neither Colonel Moussa Tiegboro Camara, the head of the gendarmes in charge of special services, a unit to which he himself belongs, nor the fiery Captain Marcel Guilavogui, a pure product of Captain Dadis Camara, nor even the Colonel Zegbela Togba Pivi.

These three officers are very close to the former head of the junta.

Responding to the declarations of Colonel Goumou, a lawyer for the civil parties insisted: " 

 ".

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