In traceable time for several years, the Belarusian Yuri Sushkin and the Ivorians Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet Attualy, the alleged pilots and co-pilots in the rescue, are being tried in their absence for murder, attempted murder and aggravated destruction. Maximum penalty requested against them.
With Laura Martel, of RFI’s France service
“This maximum punishment, I would also have demanded it if the accused had been there, the Advocate General begins. Because what motivates it is the incredible violence with facts and to show that we do not murder our soldiers with impunity.” When they are there to maintain peace. “And the judge for the details of the elements against the accused: identification, preparation … Because he insists,” France does not take revenge, condemning it with its rules, fair and democratic. By offering you this condemnation, I’m completing my job. I now undertake to do my duty. “
This duty, for the Advocate General, “is not to add hypotheses to hypotheses” or to choose one, he said, quoting Paul Valery: “The mixture of true and false is more false than the false. Himself.” On the sponsors there is “no security in the case”, the judge emphasizes, unless it is “of the heart, whole and whole, that it is inconceivable, for some reason, that France lays hands on these own soldiers.”
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“Reason for the state?” State fault? Government issue? “
In the Togolese section, there was the legal framework for arresting the suspected pilots, he insists. So there was a mistake? “The state, as we have seen, is a human chain that borrows its strengths and weaknesses from humanity,” he points out. Or: “Reason of State?” State fault? Government issue? he asks himself.
“In any case, the damage is safe for justice and the victims.” And it remains “this taste of bitterness which means that not only the error, the carelessness, the dysfunction were accepted but they did not give rise to any apology”, condemns the Advocate General, concluding with a hope: “The justice given, in memory of the dead, contributes to being the cement of unity and the peace of the living. “
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