The twenty suspects in the case of the assassination of martinez zogo returns to the government commissioner on March 3, 2023. Jean Pierre Amougou BelingaThe colonel Justin Danwéthe divisional commissioner Maxime Eko Ekothe journalist Bruno Bijang,… expect tonight that Cerlin Bélinga examines the report of the mixed police-gendarmerie commission of inquiry set up by the President of the Republic to decide their fate. Either the Government Commissioner decides on the release of the suspects, or he places them at the disposal of the military investigating judge who formally indicts them. By notifying them of the charges against them.
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These are the two steps that have been blocking the procedure for more than two weeks. After a first visit to the Military Court on February 14, the suspects were returned to the Secretary of State for Defense (SED) in charge of the gendarmerie “ for further investigation “. On February 23, they were once again taken to the Military Tribunal; the government commissioner sent them back to the Sed, this time sources spoke of a “technical problem”. In particular the absence of a military judge above the rank of lieutenant-colonel, to be able to judge Justin Danwé. But in the meantime, new people have been interviewed, in this case the journalist Paul Daizy Biya and even Jean-Claude Fouda Otto. The phone of the first would have been used for a conversation full of threats between Bruno Bidjang and Martinez Zogo. The second was arrested and released a week later, before being interviewed again.
This 3rd referral to the government commissioner should be the right one. The fate of the suspects should be known tonight. It is clear that if the information from the leaked preliminary investigations is authentic, at least Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Danwé and his accomplices in the torture should be prosecuted for murder. The Jean Pierre Amougou case could be treated differently. Still, only the investigators, the suspects, their advisers and the government commissioner hold the secrecy of the investigations and will decide what happens next.
