Cameroon: police arrest economic operator Hervé Bopda, accused of sexual assault

2024-01-31T11:19:36.729Z

Highlights: Cameroon: police arrest economic operator Hervé Bopda, accused of sexual assault. He was arrested on the night of Tuesday January 30 to Wednesday January 31 in Douala, while he was staying in a motel. For ten days, he had been accused by numerous people via social networks of serious acts of violence and sex assault. The #MeToo affair has dominated attention in Cameroon. He is said to have raped hundreds of women, according to a whistleblower who claims to have already received more than 1,000 testimonies.

Cameroonian economic operator Hervé Bopda was arrested on the night of Tuesday January 30 to Wednesday January 31 in Douala, while he was staying in a motel. For ten days, he had been accused…

Cameroon: police arrest economic operator Hervé Bopda, accused of sexual assault

Cameroonian economic operator Hervé Bopda was arrested on the night of Tuesday January 30 to Wednesday January 31 in Douala, while he was staying in a motel. For ten days, he had been accused by numerous people via social networks of serious acts of violence and sexual assault.

Hervé Bopda was mainly active in the Douala region. Here, a woman walks in the streets of this town in western Cameroon, January 27, 2022. © Charly Triballeau / AFP

By: RFI Follow

The

#MeToo affair

has dominated attention in Cameroon. For ten days, Cameroonian economic operator Hervé Bopda has been the subject of a series of anonymous denunciations via social networks regarding serious acts of violence and sexual assault. He is now in the hands of the Douala judicial police, after an arrest during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.

On Facebook, Telegram, Instagram and others, the testimonies of women, but also of men, are overflowing, describing in minute detail the horrors that Hervé Bopda allegedly subjected them to.

He is a well-known economic operator and jetsetter in Douala, but whose scope of action extends, according to the alleged victims, to Yaoundé, Kribi, Limbe and Buea. The testimonies are anonymous. Hervé Bopda is invariably described as a violent man, who operates with a firearm which he does not hesitate to brandish at his victims to intimidate them.

He is said to have raped hundreds of women, according to a whistleblower who claims to have already received more than 1,000 testimonies, of which he has chosen to publish only around sixty on this date.

If the hashtag #StopBopda had gone viral, calling for his arrest, the businessman had decided to file a complaint for defamation.

Read alsoCameroon: #StopBopda goes viral after a cascade of anonymous denunciations

Cameroon: police arrest economic operator Hervé Bopda, accused of sexual assault

Cameroon: police arrest economic operator Hervé Bopda, accused of sexual assault

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