The businessman Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga was placed under a warrant of committal on March 4, 2023 in the main prison of Kondengui, after 25 days of detention at the State Secretariat for Defense, in charge of the Gendarmerie.
The president of the Groupe l’Anecdote is being prosecuted for “Complicity in torture by aid” journalist and host Martinez Zogo, kidnapped on February 17, 2023 and found dead a few days later.
In a press release, the Anecdote Group confirmed the information, indicating that the lawyers of Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga were going to take over for the rest of the procedure.
But what does the boss of Vision 4 and Télé Sud really risk?
According to Law No. 97/009 of January 10, 1997, establishing the Cameroonian penal code, Book II of crimes, misdemeanors and contraventions. “is punished with life imprisonment whoever, by torture, involuntarily causes the death of another”. (Art. 132 bis of the Penal Code).
Even if the CEO of the Anecdote group is not formally accused of “murder”, he should certainly face the rigor of the law.
Justice for Martinez Zogo