Justice

In the Ivory Coast, the trial of the Duekoué-Carrefour massacre continues on March 28 and 29, 2011 at the Abidjan Criminal Court. The sixth day of the hearing this Thursday with the hearing of the last witnesses. There was only one accused in the box: Amadé Ouérémi, accused of carrying out the murders with her men, during which more than 800 people were killed according to the Red Cross. The former…

On the eighth day of the Bouaké bombing, the court on Thursday examined the identification and statements of the three accused, Belarusian Yury Sushkin and Ivorians Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet Attualy, suspected of having pilot and co-pilot Sukhois during the attack. . In the absence of defendants in the box, the President read the statements of the Ivorian officers heard in November 2005 by an…

A long-awaited testimony this Thursday, April 8, in the Bouaké bombing, in which nine French soldiers were killed on November 6, 2004. The Togolese Minister of the Interior at the time, François Boko, heard by video conference, explained how, while making the alleged perpetrators of raids available for the French authorities on 16 November, they refused to take it up. A very detrimental passivity for the…

During the bombing of Bouaké, the Assize court in Paris continued to investigate one of the gray areas. On November 16, 2004, ten days after the attack, Togo warned: 8 Belarusian citizens and 2 Ivorians were arrested on the border with Ghana off the Ivory Coast. Among this group apparently consists of mercenaries, the pilots of the rescuers, he suspects. But these men will finally be released, because…

Resumption today of the trial of the bombing of Bouaké. On November 6, 2004, 10 people were killed in the attack on the French military camp in the Licorne force by two Soukhoï planes piloted by Russian mercenaries and their Ivorian co-pilots. The court began investigating one of the gray areas of this act: the arrest of suspects in Togo, which will finally be released because France, warned, is not…

In Benin, the opponent Reckya Madougou was detained by the court for repression of economic crimes and terrorism on the Chancellery's decision? In any case, a judge in this court condemns the repression of economic crimes and terrorism. Essowé Batamoussi testifies at RFI. This magistrate, a member of the Criet of Freedoms and…

While supporters of Laurent Gbagbo are jubilant, part of the Ivory Coast view is insulted to see the former president definitively acquitted, rehabilitated given the allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, for which he was indicted. Do you understand the plight of the victims, who saw him as responsible for the prejudices they suffered during the war that took place when he was head of…

At the trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouaké, which left ten dead on November 6, 2004, the court heard this Friday from General Destremau, former commander of the joint battle group Bouaké, and Captain Bellamy, division chief. based in Yamoussoukro. When asked why the Sukhoi pilots were not arrested when they…

The fourth day of the trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouakéen in 2004 was marked by unparalleled information given to the bar by a soldier's widow regarding the black boxes on the planes used for the raid. The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces at the time, General Bentégeat, confirmed that the black boxes on…

The Ivorian Charles Blé Goudé was Minister of Youth during the crisis following the 2010-2011 elections in Côte d'Ivoire. This Wednesday, March 31, the International Criminal Court confirmed its acquittal at the same time as former President Laurent Gbagbo. The two men are definitely innocent of the crimes against humanity for which they were charged. The ICC's Board of Appeal also repeals all remaining conditions when they are released. Charles Blé Goudé answers Stéphanie Maupas, RFI correspondent in The Hague, the…