Former Guinean Dictator Dadis Camara Freed from Prison in Armed Commando Rescue

AFP

Guinea: ex-dictator Dadis Camara released from prison by an armed commando

Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara was taken out of prison on Saturday morning by a heavily armed commando after heavy exchanges of fire in central Conakry, lawyers and a judicial source said. At least two other former officials currently on trial as Captain Camara for a massacre perpetrated in 2009 under his presidency were also taken from the prison, according to these sources, without it clearly appearing whether Moussa Dadis Camara had escaped of his own free will. The commando assault awakened before dawn the center of the capital to the sound of automatic weapons. A group of masked and heavily armed soldiers arrived around 4:00 a.m. (local and GMT) in front of the prison to which they forced access, said a judicial source under the cover of anonymity given the sensitivity of the subject. They declared “to have come to free Captain Dadis Camara”, she said. Inside, the attackers, who seemed to know the places, headed towards the captain’s cell and took him and other detainees to an unknown destination, she added. “The attorney general confirmed to me that my client had been taken out of prison by heavily armed men. armed,” his lawyer, Jocamey Haba, told AFP, raising the possibility that his client was taken against his will. “I still think he was kidnapped. He has confidence in the justice system of his country, which is why he will never try to escape,” he added, referring to the trial currently underway. “His life is in danger,” he added. he assured. The operation shook Kaloum, the district of the presidency, institutions, businesses and a number of embassies, but also the central prison. “There is automatic weapon fire and war” in Kaloum, said in the early hours of the day a resident of the area on condition of anonymity for his safety. “The town center has been blocked since dawn, no entry or exit,” declared a trader, also on condition of anonymity. “We wanted to go to the port where I work, but we were prevented (from passing) at the entrance to the Kaloum peninsula, where armored vehicles were deployed,” he added. An official at the airport, far from the center, indicated that the planes had not taken off on Saturday morning, the navigation staff having been unable to reach the airport platform from Kaloum, where they commonly spend the night. This bout of fever immediately awakened the memory of the putsch, carried out around the same time, on September 5, 2021 when Colonel Mamady Doumbouya stormed the presidential palace with his men and overthrew the president civilian Alpha Condé by arms. – The “compass” of justice – But several information sites quickly indicated that a heavily armed commando had targeted the central prison. “The central house of Conakry was actually attacked last night “, said the inspector general of the judicial services of the Ministry of Justice Yaya Kaïraba Kaba, quoted by the site Guinée Matin. The sites and several sources reported the escape of Moussa Dadis Camara, but also Moussa Tiegboro Camara and Claude Pivi, tried like him, among a dozen former military and government officials, for the 2009 massacre. Guinea, a country with a tormented political history since independence from France, has just entered in the second year of this trial, for which Moussa Dadis Camara was detained since the start of the hearings in September 2022. They answer for a litany of murders, acts of torture, rapes and other kidnappings committed on September 28, 2009 by the forces of security at the September 28 stadium in the suburbs of Conakry, where tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered, and surrounding areas. At least 156 people were killed and hundreds injured, and at least 109 raped women, according to the report of a commission of inquiry mandated by the UN. This trial opened in September 2022 when the country’s new strongman, Colonel Doumbouya, promised after his coup to rebuild the Guinean state and to make justice its “compass”. After the 2021 putsch, Colonel Doumbouya was invested president and under international pressure committed to handing over power to elected civilians within a deadline of two years from January 2023.The Forces Vives of Guinea, a collective of opposition parties and organizations, denounced unfulfilled commitments and an authoritarian drift, evoking an “emerging dictatorship”.bm-lal/emd

2023-11-04 22:40:23
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