In Mauritania, former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was placed on probation by a judge from the anti-corruption pole of the Nouakchott-Ouest Prosecutor’s Office on 22 June. The man who ruled Mauritania between 2008 and 2019 was accused on March 12 of corruption, embezzlement of public property and money laundering. Facts he has always denied.
The basis and conditions of this preventive detention was convicted Tuesday night by his lawyers during a press release.
“A decree allocating part of the police academy to the detention of the former president was created a few hours before his hearing and resulted in him being placed under a commitment order, proving that the decision on his detention had been made long before he appeared. before the judge who ordered his preventive detention, believes master Taleb Khyiar, a member of the bar association that defends the former head of state. This decree remains ineffective as long as it has not been published in the Official Journal. This condition is not met, it follows that the detention center for the former president is illegal. Our client is kept in total isolation, deprived of all visits from family members, all sports activity and all access to a sunny space. Our client is exposed to segregationist ways, permanent violations of his fundamental rights, violations that we have always tried to condemn in accordance with current texts or to instruct the investigation in the hope that the court will free itself from the strangulation … the security services and the executive power, so that justice in this matter regains its calm and takes precedence over revenge. “
If the lawyers of Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz say that this is the case political solution of points and are outraged at his detention, for Master Brahim Ebety, the coordinator of the legal profession in the Mauritanian state, this action is normal and the law is very clear.
“This is an issue that the investigative unit has resolved, as it considers that the former president did not fulfill the obligations imposed on him, that is, to follow legal control. He has become a Mauritanian dispute like everyone else! This is the first time a president of the republic has been prosecuted for such serious facts, it is a matter of financial embezzlement, the African world and the Arab world need such an example. In corruption matters, all proceedings are carried out collegially, the prosecutor’s office also consists of one pole, three prosecutors and the investigation consists of three judges who will ensure transparency. We, on a par with the legal profession from Mauritania, will ensure that there is maximum transparency and that there is a fairest trial, which will also make history in our African sub-region and the Arab world, ”warns Brahim Ebety.
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