2024-01-31 18:50:43
The case opposing Oumar Sylla alias Foniké Menguè, Mamadou Bilo Bah, Djani Alfa and Sekou Koundouno to the Minister of Justice, Charles Wright for acts of “Violence, threats, intentional bodily harm, slanderous denunciations, defamation, insults, abuse of authority ” and that against the Dixinn public prosecutor’s office, were reopened this Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at the Conakry Court of Appeal before being sent back.
Coming to represent his clients including Foniké Mengué the only one who was present, Djani Alpha and Sékou Koundouno in exile, and Mamadou Bilo Bah hospitalized in a local clinic, Me Salifou Beavogui spoke of the different legal and political complexities surrounding these files.
Firstly, the plaintiffs’ lawyer wanted to recall the violent conditions of the arrest of his clients by agents of the central directorate of judicial investigations, then taken to the central house before being tried and released purely and simply. for unconstituted offences. It was the Dixinn public prosecutor’s appeal against this first decision which was examined first.
Then, the activists filed a complaint against the Minister of Justice who was at the time Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Conakry for alleged acts of “violence, threats, intentional assault and battery, slanderous denunciations, defamation, insults , abuse of authority”. Against all expectations, the judge of the Dixinn Court of First Instance declared himself incompetent, indicating that Alphonse Charles Wright can only be tried before the High Court of Justice. Thus, the young activists, through their lawyer, appealed the decision. It is this procedure which opened this Wednesday following the first.
“It (the High Court of Justice, editor’s note) was never set up, it was never institutionalized and made functional. We believe that before the court, obviously the procedural errors, the multiple violations that we will submit before the magistrates of the Court of Appeal could lead us firstly to confirm the first decision which acquitted them, secondly to overturn the second decision which indicated that our action is inadmissible because the minister is only justiciable before the High Court of Justice which does not exist,” explained Me Salifou Beavogui.
At the end of this Wednesday’s hearing, the two files were postponed until February 14, 2024, for the continuation of the debates.
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