At the sunset of this trial, the sky has just fallen on the heads of the defendants in room 2.12. Arms crossed, face flushed, Bernard Laporte seems paralyzed by what he has just heard. At the very end of a two-voice indictment that lasted more than three hours, the PNF prosecutors, Céline Guillet and François-Xavier Dulin, demanded once morest him, as for Mohed Altrad, three years in prison, including one firm, as well as a two-year ban from holding any position, even voluntary, in connection with rugby, and from managing a commercial company. The PNF combined these prohibitions with a provisional execution, thus making them non-suspensive in the event of an appeal.
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Published on : 20/09/2022 – 15:30
In Gabon, opponent Guy Nzouba-Ndama is still in police custody. The former president of the National Assembly was arrested on Saturday at the border, returning from Congo-Brazzaville. More than a billion CFA francs in cash were found in his suitcases. He was stopped. The deputy prosecutor said he was suspected of improper possession of funds. But new charges are now being brought once morest him.
Guy Nzouba-Ndama was heard until late Monday, September 19 by the Franceville prosecutor. And here he is now accused irregular holding of funds, but also money laundering and intelligence with a foreign power. The file is being transferred to Libreville. Guy Nzouba-Ndama was himself on the plane at midday, under escort, heading for the capital.
One of his lawyers complains of “ numerous procedural flaws of implacable rudeness “. Me Martial Loundou Dibangoyi explains that the Franceville court had released Guy Nzouba-Ndama on bail with a flagrance hearing scheduled for October or November in Franceville. But a special court in Libreville decided to put him back in police custody and transfer him to the capital.
Opposition continues to protest arrest
Nevertheless, Me Lubin Ntountoume, another of his defenders, describes a Guy Nzouba Ndama “ serene ». « He saw a doctor. He is doing well. For the latter, the essential thing is that we guarantee his rights, in particular the presumption of innocence. “ He is a political figure. It presents guarantees of representation. All this militates for him to find his family while waiting for the investigation to continue », indicated Me Lubin Ntountoum.
The affair continues in any case to agitate the political sphere. The Rassemblement pour la patrie et la modernité denounced the broadcast of a video of the arrest of Guy Nzouba Ndama, ” thrown into the pasture “, according to the opposition party, which criticizes the ” autocratic excesses of a power that does not know how to preserve human dignity ».
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Trial of the September 2009 massacre in Guinea: “I would like us to discern the victims of the executioners”, says Cellou Dalein Diallo
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Published on : 20/09/2022 – 07:38
In Guinea, the authorities have announced the date of the trial for the massacre of September 28, 2009. The opening of this historic trial will take place on the 13th anniversary of the events, on September 28 next. In 2009, thousands gathered in a stadium at the call of the opposition to reject the idea of Moussa Dadis Camara’s candidacy for the presidential election. The rally is bloodily repressed. At least 157 people are murdered and 109 women raped. The opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo is one of the political leaders who were in the stadium with their activists. Thirteen years later, he welcomes the opening of this trial while hoping that it will not be the subject of political manipulation. He answers Laurent Correau’s questions.
VIDEO – Disappearance of Maddie: the end of the mystery?
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
In 2017, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of her disappearance, Gerry and Kate, the girl’s parents, gave a long interview to the BBC. Following the broadcast of this interview, a man called the police in Germany. He indicates that one of his friends, a certain Christian Brückner, would have confessed to him to be involved in the disappearance of Maddie. The German authorities realize that they had already received a report concerning him, a few years earlier. “In 2013, a man called the police saying Christian B.’s name, but it was still pretty vague, relates prosecutor Hans-Christian Wolters. There were no other suspicious items. He was presented as a witness. It was pretty quick because Christian B. said he wasn’t in Portugal at the time of Maddie’s disappearance. And it ended there.
However, four years later, the investigators discover that Christian Brückner lied. Indeed, according to the German investigation, telephone recordings identified the suspect near the hotel complex where the girl slept on the evening of her disappearance. For German justice, he would clearly have the profile of Maddie’s kidnapper. Christian Brückner has already been sentenced to 24 months in prison when he was only 17 years old, for the sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl in Germany. On his release from detention, he joined Praia da Luz, in the south of Portugal, where he saw odd jobs but also larceny. In 2006, he was imprisoned in a Portuguese prison for stealing diesel from trucks.