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The head of the Malian junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, granted this Friday January 6 the presidential pardon to the 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested in July and then condemned by the Malian justice, according to a decree.
The announcement fell in the evening this Friday, via the communiqué n ° 43 of the Malian transition, read on the airwaves of national television. In a decree, Colonel Assimi Goïta granted his pardon with full remission of the sentence to the 49 Ivorian soldiers who had been sentenced last week to very heavy sentences.
In this statement, the government says its ” attachment […] to the preservation of fraternal and secular relations with the countries of the region in particular with Côte d’Ivoire. As the text goes on to say, the momentum was created last December 22 by the visit to Bamako of a large delegation from Côte d’Ivoire and the signing of a memorandum. The Malian government congratulates the Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé on this subject for his involvement in the mediation. The latter had gone the day before yesterday to Bamako for a one-on-one with Assimi Goïta.
Of the 49 convicted last week, three were released in October. There are therefore 46 who must hear the news this evening with great relief in their prisons in Bamako. We do not yet know the precise terms of their release, which should result from this presidential pardon.
