2024-02-13 01:56:49
41 years ago, in 1983, the Dikoum affair hit the headlines in Cameroon. Behind the appearance of a peaceful and united family was in reality an adulterous wife, who will end up ordering the assassination of her innocent husband in order to fully experience her extra-marital relationship. Return to this tragic news item, which has become the symbol of crime of passion.
On the surface, the Dikoum family lets nothing show. Vincent Dikoum Minyem, 37, a bank executive, leads a peaceful life alongside his wife Marinette Dikoum, 31. This sociology graduate who teaches high school is considered a woman who is as beautiful as she is intelligent.
It is therefore difficult to imagine the family drama that is playing out in the shadows and which will lead to the savage murder of Vincent Dikoum. The image of the ideal family unit is shattered, giving way to horror.
A diabolical plot hatched by the wife
That day in January 1983, Vincent Dikoum came home from work without suspecting that it would be his last meal. His wife serves him a glass of milk into which she has discreetly poured a large dose of sleeping pills. Once her husband is plunged into a deep sleep, Marinette Dikoum takes action.
She brings three henchmen into the house, previously hidden in the kitchen. Drunk after getting drunk on whiskey, they enter the room to coldly murder Vincent Dikoum while he sleeps. A murder ordered in cold blood by his wife, who waits for the end of the execution in her living room.
A body thrown at the bottom of the river
The crime committed, Marinette Dikoum takes the wheel of the family vehicle to get rid of the body with the complicity of her lover and the three killers. Direction the Sanaga River, where the corpse is thrown after having been firmly attached to a stone for ballast.
Returning from the sinister trip, the gang of criminals will even celebrate the success of their crime in a bar, proof of their relaxation in the face of the atrocity committed.
The culprit’s late remorse
If the crime could have appeared ” parfait “, clues will allow investigators to trace the trail back to the culprits. Cornered by the evidence, Marinette Dikoum will finally confess.
The real motivation for this sponsored murder? Live fully her adulterous relationship with her lover, a soldier stationed in Bafang. It is quite simply to “ rid » of her husband and lead a double life that this wife will have deviously plotted his assassination.
After serving many years in prison, Marinette Dikoum and her accomplices were finally released. Consumed by remorse, the instigator of the crime even wrote a book to ask for clemency and try to reconcile with her children. In vain…