The son of ex-president IBK has been on the run abroad since the coup that overthrew his father in August last year. Before that, Karim Keïta, a former deputy, had already been quoted in the Birama Touré affair, this Malian journalist who had been missing since January 2016. According to the newspaper for which he worked, Le Sphinx, Karim Keïta was involved in this disappearance. On Monday, Malia’s justice took Interpol so that Karim Keïta was arrested and transferred to Bamako to be heard there.
For those close to Birama Touré, who has been seeking for more than five years to highlight his disappearance, the program for this international arrest warrant against Karim Keïta is a source of great satisfaction.
Sphinx, the investigative magazine that Birama Touré worked for, but also Bamako FM radio, has already published features involving Karim Keïta in this affair. The former president’s son had also sued them, a complaint which was then declared inadmissible by Malian justice two years ago. Since then, the file had not really developed. A procedure is also open in France.
The publishing director of the investigative newspaper Le Sphinx, Adama Dramé, who has been fighting for more than five years to highlight his journalists’ disappearance, greets “good news” and now claims that they are waiting for the version of facts by Karim Keïta.
We have been waiting for this for five years since Birama’s disappearance on January 29, 2016.
Adama Dramé, publishing director of the magazine Le Sphinx
For the other party, Maître Khalifa Yaro, one of Karim Keita’s lawyers, complains that he has not had access to the last parts of the case, which he is waiting for before speaking in public. But he already reminds that Karim Keïta has always asserted his innocence in this affair. He makes sure that the former deputy does not refuse to explain himself but that he has never been called officially. Above all, Master Yaro wonders about the need to issue an arrest warrant when his client, Karim Keïta, as far as he knows, is not charged.
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