Moussa Dadis Camara is back in prison, his lawyer announced this Saturday, November 4, afternoon. The former Guinean president, who has been held in Conakry Central House for more than a year, was taken from his cell by a heavily armed commando just before dawn this morning.
Published on: April 11, 2023 – 5:11 p.m. Modified on: April 11, 2023 – 6:22 p.m
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Since he was taken from his cell that Saturday morning, Moussa Dadi’s Camara has been searched throughout the capital and patrolled by the defense and security forces. According to Dadis Camara’s lawyer, it was not an escape but a kidnapping.
The lawyer explains to RFI that the former president was suddenly awakened in his sleep before armed men forcibly removed him from his cell along with his three fellow prisoners, Colonel Moussa Tiegboro Camara, Colonel Claude Pivi and Gendarme Blaise Goumou.
All have been in prison for at least a year and all are being prosecuted for their alleged roles in the September 28, 2009, massacre in which nearly 160 people died and around a hundred women were raped.
According to Maître Lamah, Dadis Camara was therefore kidnapped by this armed group. He was able to speak by telephone with his client, who explained to him that he had managed to escape his alleged captors before going back to prison, although the lawyer did not know the exact conditions in which the former head of the prison found himself wanted to explain in more detail The CNDD junta returned to the central house.
Colonel Tiegboro, who was also released from prison, told his lawyer that he had deceived the vigilance of his captors before leaving them and returning to his cell.
In a press release, the Bundeswehr’s chief of staff does not confirm these two versions and instead claims to have “put an end” to the escape of the prisoners and assures that “all security measures have been taken to find the last escapee.” , Claude Pivi.
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