2024-01-04 07:42:20
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS & SOCIETEPOLITIC
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In Guinea, this is an announcement that questions more than it worries. On Tuesday, January 2, national television presented the authors of an attempted coup d’état, which was allegedly aborted several months ago by the Guinean authorities. The person designated as the brains of the operation is a certain Captain Abdoulaye 2 Cissé. The RTG report retraces for 15 minutes the film of this announced putsch attempt, but it raises many more questions than it provides answers. RFI tried in vain to contact the Guinean government for official confirmation of this failed coup.
The report shows Captain Abdoulaye 2 Cissé, presented as a former member of the Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops. We see this in particular in the video, which the soldier would have planned to broadcast after overthrowing Mamadi Doumbouya in which he calls on the defense and security forces to join him within a Transitional National Council of Guinea. Then arrive the filmed confessions of the captain as well as those of his accomplices.
They all acknowledge their involvement and ask for forgiveness before thanking Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya who granted them a presidential pardon on the occasion of the New Year.
But this report leaves many viewers doubtful. The soldier was reportedly arrested several months ago. However, this failed putsch was never announced by the authorities. The confessions are filmed by the presidency’s communications, recognizable by its logo.
The profile of the accomplices also raises questions: a breeder, a trader, an artist manager and even a student.
And the confessions of Captain Cissé, already imprecise, suggest that he was only an executioner, since he claims to have no financial or material means, and not even to know the layout of the Mohamed V palace. , where President Doumbouya resides.
In any case, the RTG report provokes a reaction. On the opposition side, former Prime Minister Sidya Touré, currently in exile, deplores “ a return to the practices of Ahmed Sékou Touré », the father of Guinean independence, and follower of fictitious conspiracies. An era that Cellou Dalein Diallo, president of the UFDG, the main opposition force and also in exile, also knew well. He believes that freedom of the press is in danger and does not see “ no political will to return power to civilians. »
I think we are assassinating press freedom. I see what’s happening. We cut off the internet and the main radio stations. I have doubts, personally. I do not sense any political will to hand power back to civilians.
RFI
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