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Guinea: justice proceedings against Alpha Condé and his ministers begin



The public prosecutor at the Conakry Court of Appeals has initiated "immediate" proceedings against the former head of state and several of his former ministers.


On Wednesday, May 4, in a 20-page document entitled "Instructions for the purposes of legal proceedings by way of denunciation," the attorney general at the Conakry court of appeal instructed the prosecutor's office "to initiate immediate legal proceedings" against numerous leading figures of the deposed regime.


Twenty-seven persons are accused of "murder, assassination, complicity, detentions, abductions, torture and assault."


The Guinean citizens and media share mostly a common standpoint on the issue. Le Pays claims that "If at the end of his two constitutional terms, he had accepted to exercise his rights to retirement, he would be taking it easy at the moment with his grandchildren, far from the forks of justice where his own mistakes have unfortunately led him. He sought it, and he found it. Let him take full responsibility for himself!"


The current government took power from Alpha Condé by coup d'etat on September 5, 2021. On April 30, the president interim Mamady Doumbouya announced that it would take 39 months to organize new democratic elections. More on the topic here.


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