Ivorian justice is once more taking a look at the Guillaume Soro case this week. After being sentenced to twenty years in jail in April 2020 for cash laundering and concealment of embezzlement of public funds, the previous president of the Nationwide Meeting is that this time charged particularly with conspiracy and assault on the state authority. The Abidjan prosecutor has been accusing him because the finish of December 2019 of encouraging him and his family to aim an rebellion within the Ivory Coast.
as reported from Abidjan, Pierre Pinto
Charged with Guillaume Soro, nineteen of his family, lots of whom are like him in exile and others in custody for trial, since December 2019 or January 2020.
If Guillaume Soro doesn’t get a twist, it can not be within the field this Wednesday, Could nineteenth. The opponent lives in exile in Europe, together with his shut guard consisting particularly of his lawyer, the previous Minister Affoussiata Bamba Lamine, additionally accused, or his communications director, Moussa Touré, additionally within the prosecutor’s cross. Among the many defendants additionally indicted, the previous deputy for Dabou, Sess Soukou Mohamed, alias “Ben Souk”.
Nonetheless, some family of Guillaume Soro will likely be there as a result of they’ve been in custody, some for nearly seventeen months.
Amongst them, the previous Minister and former Deputy, Alain Lobognon, who held a press convention on the GPS headquarters, when he was arrested on December 23, 2019 together with fourteen different individuals. Along with the allegations of conspiracy and assault on state authority, he should reply to them for spreading and publishing false information (…) and disrupting public order.
Alain Lobognon introduced final week in a press launch that he had resigned from MVCI, a occasion that has simply damaged with the Soro galaxy. Its president, Félicien Sekongo, will even be within the field.
One other sorority character current, Souleymane Kone Kamaraté, aka Soul To Soul. Trustworthy among the many devoted of the previous insurgent chief, the director of the protocol in Soro had already been prosecuted, after the invention of a cache of weapons, in his residence, in Bouaké, 2017 through the mutinies, earlier than he was granted. amnesty the next 12 months.
The brothers of the previous president of the Nationwide Meeting, Simon and Rigobert Soro, are additionally among the many twenty accused.
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