2024-09-25 15:11:00
In Guinea, Colonel Célestin Bilivogui died. Missing for almost a year after his arrest by gendarmes, his body was given to his wife on Wednesday at the morgue of the Ignace Deen hospital in Conakry. The conditions under which he passed and his death are not yet known.
On the morning of Wednesday, September 25, Lauuratou Bangoura, one of the wives of Colonel Célestin Bilivogui, received an anonymous call asking her to go to the Almamy Samory Touré military camp, headquarters (Headquarters) and headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense. In a statement given to the Guinean media, she explained that she was then taken to the morgue of the Ignace Deen hospital, where the soldiers asked her to identify what she recognized as the body of her husband who had been gone for almost a year.
On November 8, 2023, Lauuratou Bangoura told the arrest of her husband already, 4 days after he was removed from the army after escaping from Moussa Dadis Camara and Claude Pivi from the central prison of Conakry. Still according to his wife, Célestin Bilivogui was then arrested by a group of gendarmes and taken to an undisclosed location. Until today, she had not received any news from her husband.
While waiting to find out the exact circumstances of his death, some civil society activists, such as Forum des forces sociale de Guinea (FFSG) and one of the spokespersons for the coalition of the National Alliance for Exchange and Democracy expressed concern about the climate of violence and impunity that prevails in Guinea, while other opponents, such as Foniké Mengué and Bilo Bah, from the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), are also missing after their arrest in July.
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