While he is struggling to obtain parole, Amadou Damaro Camara is reportedly fighting against illness. His advisors say they fear the worst if he is not evacuated abroad.
Amadou Damaro Camara, expected to take the stand again on May 13 to certainly listen to the key testimonies of two executives of the National Transition Council, is said to have health concerns. The spawn of the rainbow RPG, bedridden at the Sino-Guinean Friendship hospital, is going through a bad time. His health problems would only worsen, to the point that he would now “put his legal troubles on the back burner”, specifies his lawyer Me Santiba Kouyaté. The latter and his defense colleagues have continued to sound the alarm, declaring that their client is “seriously” ill.
Medical evacuation abroad
The last president of the National Assembly of the Alpha Condé era suffers from “peripheral neuropathy” and “symptomatology” which spread overnight, according to the report from his attending physician. According to Mr. Kouyaté, the department where his client is hospitalized concluded that a medical evacuation outside the country is necessary: “We use the service of a private clinic, at our client’s expense, to delay the spread of diseases. This is very expensive. We need the human face of justice, we must let it go and heal itself,” argues the lawyer.
Fear and opposition from the prosecution
But the special prosecutor’s office at the Court for the Repression of Economic and Financial Offenses opposed all the release decisions rendered in favor of Amadou Damaro Camara. Here too, he would not be ready to give up ballast. He fears that the defendant will disappear like the former Minister of the Environment. Benefiting from authorization to leave the territory for his treatment, Oyé Guilavogui has not returned. Same scenario practically for Michel Kamano who, too, is extending his medical stay in Europe. “It was the public prosecutor who made arrangements for him (Amadou Damaro Ccamara, editor’s note) to end up in hospital, even if they want to make it appear that we are doing nothing to restore his health. We have the impression that he wants to be out of the country at all costs,” replies Amiata Kaba, deputy special prosecutor. The prosecutor in this case believes that the defendant can indeed seek treatment in Guinea. While Me Santiba Kouyaté remains convinced that if nothing is done, “what happened to the late Louncény Camara (former minister of Alpha Condé who died in detention, editor’s note) will happen to our client. It would be a shame”.
Yacine Diallo
2024-05-07 19:06:57