Counsel for Lebanese businessman Samih Jammal are asking the Congolese authorities to authorize their client to travel abroad for emergency surgery following the deterioration of his state of health.
Mr. Jammal suffers, according to his lawyers, from a deformation of the pelvis, giving him excruciating pain. His health worries more and more to believe them.
“The health of the Samih Jammal businessman is increasingly worrying. After being allowed to leave the CPRK where he spent 8 months, the businessman is admitted to a health center where he is the only patient, which center has proven itself, but for lack of a proven specialty to provide adequate care to their only patient, he sterilely attends the suffering of their only patient, who suffers from a deformity in the pelvis which gives him excruciating pain. Thus during the 12 months of his detention, his condition goes from bad to worse, “denounce Samih Jammal’s lawyers.
And to continue:
“It should be remembered that the Nganda center and the Ngaliema clinic had in turn refused to treat her case, because it is according to them. The collective of French and Congolese lawyers of Mr. Jammal is worried and requests an emergency transfer abroad for surgery in a center specializing in cosmetic colon replacement surgery. Since human life is sacred as the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo says “.
These lawyers also ask the President of the Republic to “get involved” so that Samih Jammal can recover the possibility of receiving treatment.
As a reminder, it is since June 20, 2020 that Samih Jammal has been sentenced within the framework of the so-called 100 days trial, to 20 years of forced labor for embezzlement of funds intended for the 100 days program of Félix Tshisekedi, corruption and money laundering. capital.
Ivan Kasongo
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