In custody for eight years, Amadé Ouérémi will be stuck in her fate this Thursday, April 15 in the afternoon. The brigadier from the West Ivory Coast, accused of being responsible for the massacre of hundreds of people on March 28 and 29, 2011 in Duékoué, is sentenced to life in prison. Wednesday was the seventh day of his trial, with the indictment and the submissions.
as reported from Abidjan, Pierre Pinto
In the stands, listening to the prosecutor, Amadé Ouérémi shakes her head in disagreement and raises her finger as a student to ask in vain to speak.
The prosecutor overwhelms him. He looks back on many testimonies to highlight the savagery that marked these 28 and 29 March 2011 in Duékoué-Carrefour. Abuse that Amadé Ouérémi would be solely responsible for together with her husbands. And to quote witnesses who for some confirm sees the accused at the scene on these days, the one who says he was not present in Duekoué until the 29th at the end of the afternoon.
The prosecutor also presents Amadé Ouérémi, head of the militia, at the head of more than a hundred armed men, when the accused did not cease in this trial to constitute a simple element under orders from rebel leaders. Rebel leaders never cited rockets, which call for life imprisonment against Amadé Ouérémi.
The defense attorney points to the lack of evidence presented during this trial and believes that the real perpetrators are the former rebel leaders, at the head of comzone, today Colonel Losseni Fofana. Amadé Ouérémi would only be a lamp worker, according to Me Serigba: “We want to blame this weak and illiterate gentleman for everything that happened as atrocities. He and the members of his community have been deceived, instrumentalized. The sponsors are still there. ”
“I did not direct. I did not give orders to attack the city. I did not take out the weapons. I did not give the balls, ”concludes Amadé Ouérémi. The verdict is expected on Thursday, April 15 in the afternoon.
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