2024-10-06 02:48:04
After responding to a summons from the police who interviewed him, on August 19 and 20, 2024, the missionary <a href="https://time.news/the-shalom-tsemo-affair-generates-psychosis-on-the-way-to-school/" title="The Shalom Tsemo affair generates psychosis on the way to school”>Dounya Fendju indicates that he never transmitted information or gave his guarantee for the dissemination of information or videos on social networks by journalists or any influencers converted into cyber activists. While an indictment for complicity in defamation against his person and the issuance of search warrants against the alleged perpetrators of the offense are taking shape.
This Thursday, August 15, 2024, Shalom Tsemo should be seven years old. Unfortunately, this little girl, kidnapped, raped, sodomized and killed in Bangangté, between February 29 and February 1is March 2024, while returning from school, did not experience the grace of celebrating her seventh birthday. This verifiable information was broadcast by numerous online news sites, just after the tragedy. Only at the same time, some sites or Facebok pages have shone in terms of unverifiable news on this subject. This is particularly the case of the cyber activist nicknamed -Nzui-manto-. Around March 6, he, through his publications on Facebook, exaggeratedly linked the kidnapping, rape or sodomization and assassination of Shalom to a case of trafficking in human bones. These denunciations and false accusations, according to the missionary Dounya Fendju whom we met on March 9, 2024, do not reflect the facts on the ground. –My phone keeps crackling. There is too much false information circulating on the web since the announcement of the death of my daughter on 1is last March. People say unfounded things. People even circulated on WhatsApp that the policewoman’s house was set on fire by motorcycle taxi drivers. I deplore this situation, he confided.
At the end of his hearing at the Western Regional Division of the Judicial Police in Bafoussam, on Monday August 19, 2024, the missionary Odilon Dounya Fendju, implicated following a plant by the public security commissioner of the city of Bangangté , Son Mathias Ngouko informed relatives that he is being prosecuted for having denounced the Kum couple – whose female partner, Mélanie Kum, is a police officer on duty at the Bangangté public security police station. According to him, it is common ground that the remains of Shalom Tsemo were discovered on 1is March 2024 at the home of this couple. Which implies that those responsible for this house are suspected of having played a role in the kidnapping and murder of this 6-year-old girl in Bangangté. This missionary also reports that during his hearing, he was accused of complicity in writings or speeches distilled by electronic communication or on the networks by certain journalists or influencers in the context of this affair and criminalizing high personalities of the inner circle, with information without evidence relating to trafficking in human bones.
The deceased should be seven years old on August 15, 2024
Far from this logic of fake news, to pay tribute to the deceased, her friends and acquaintances met this August 15, 2024 in Bangangté, at the home of her parents, the missionary Odilon Dounya Fendju and his companion Catherine Larissa Bianou, to pray, sing and deplore the disappearance, in cruel and dramatic circumstances, of the little girl then aged six years and five months, Tsemo Elalie Grace Shalom whose lifeless body has been found since 1is March 2024 at the Bangangté District Hospital morgue.
This drama continues to annoy Catherine Bianou Larissa, the mother of the murdered little girl. She asks that justice be done and that her little daughter’s body be returned to her so that she can mourn and free herself emotionally. For her, it is abnormal that her daughter’s remains have been in the cold room for seven months already. She is as shocked as all the requests made to the judicial authorities of Bangangté to take possession of this body proved unsuccessful. His companion, the missionary Dounya Fendju, continues to denounce the carelessness of the investigations and the unorthodox behavior of the Bangangté police officers. Because, after the discovery of Shalom’s body, on the morning of the 1is March 2024, at the home of one of their colleagues, police inspector Mélanie Kum, they rushed to deposit these remains in the morgue, without the presence of her parents or the public. Then, he complains about the fact that the commissioner of the judicial police of Bafoussam refused his request for the reconstruction of the facts and the resumption of the autopsy of the forensic doctor in his presence or that of the mother of the child. The missionary Dounya Fendju assumes, until the moment we go to press, this posture of denunciation and rejects any statement made on social networks by people with whom he has never exchanged or communicated like the journalist and activist Cameroonian J. Remy Ngono, in exile in France for years. The latter, communicating on this affair, conducted a live broadcast on his Youtube channel, four months ago, and of which we became aware on April 12, 2024. In a virulent tone, he openly accused the Cameroonian government of be at the origin of this crime. J. Remy Ngono specifically cited the name of a personality from Banganté and member of this government constituted by the presidential majority, the Democratic Rally of the Cameroonian People-Rdpc-. After as before this militant denunciation of J. Remy Ngono which went viral, the missionary Dounya Fendju shines with a constant speech. -Since the death of this child, things have been said on the networks. There are truths and untruths. I have not given anyone permission to talk about this matter on social networks. I hope that all journalists who cover the kidnapping and arrest of Shalom remain professional. I am not in favor of all the information circulating on social networks. It looks less serious and can dilute the relevance of our demands. I only address journalists with a restored reputation and who demonstrate professionalism by knowing how to criticize and verify information at the source, he explains.
Bullying logic
Summoned to the Western Regional Division of the Judicial Police in Bafoussam for Monday August 19, 2024, the missionary referred following this document of criminal proceedings directed against his person, signed on August 12 by the judicial police- Pj- and served a few hours later. He also deplores that far from acceding to these demands in the context of revealing the truth about the Shalom affair, the police and judicial authorities are activating criminal proceedings against his person… – It is urgently mentioned in the note of this transmission of this affair of the Bangangté package to the Bafoussam PJ. It’s as if this investigation will be carried out more quickly than that of my daughter’s assassination. I was told that the Bangangté Prosecutor who referred him since July 4, 2024 to the PJ for investigations, is quickly awaiting the report following my hearing, he underlines. On August 20, the accused appeared again before the judicial police officer. He multiplied questions to find out his links and the nature of his contacts with cyber journalists and activists on the web. The missionary indicated that he could not reveal his sources of information. And he clarified that he is not responsible for the content of the videos that circulated on social networks in the context of this affair.
Issue search warrants against alleged perpetrators of defamation
What is hidden behind this demand for speed… Will the Bangangté Prosecutor charge the missionary Dounya Fendu with complicity in defamation by electronic means – article 78 of the 2010 law on cybersecurity and cybercrime in Cameroon and issue a arrest warrant against the alleged perpetrators of this offense. The continuation of this hearing – interrupted by a service emergency – will take place this Tuesday, August 20, 2024. It should be noted that the observer underlines that this pursuit is akin to a cabal orchestrated by the enemies of freedom of expression and of the right to information prescribed by Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and detailed in the Declaration of Principles of the African Union on access to information and freedom of expression in Africa recorded in Banjul, Gambia in 2019.