2024-05-13 16:32:45
The Judgment Chamber of the Court docket for the Repression of Financial and Monetary Offenses, Crief, was contemplating hiring new legal professionals for Mohamed Diané. The Guinea Bar, requested on this regard, stated niet, reminds the Court docket that the defendant’s legal professionals by no means resigned.
Between Mohamed Diané and Crief, it’s a sport of cat and mouse. The previous Minister of Nationwide Protection and Presidential Affairs involves the hearings with out legal professionals. His individuals suspended their participation within the process, to denounce the non-execution of the discharge selections taken in favor of the accused by the Crief Investigation Management Chamber, but additionally by the ECOWAS Court docket of Justice. Since then, the trial has had problem getting began. That is unlikely to proceed. The Guinea Bar, requested to nominate a lawyer for Mohamed Diané, politely declined. The Bar Council considers itself incapable of finishing up such an act, though the defendant has legal professionals: “The defendant’s legal professionals didn’t depart. They need the execution of the discharge selections regarding their shopper. We’re sorry that we can not comply together with your request as a result of the defendant nonetheless has legal professionals,” his response letter reads.
This reply distresses the general public prosecutor who anticipated the alternative to start the debates on the deserves: “The Bar is aware of that the angle of the defendant’s legal professionals is prone to hinder the progress of the process. The Court docket’s request is a choice, it needed to be imposed,” stated Malik Marcel Oularé, particular substitute. For the Guinean state lawyer, Me Amadou Baben Camara, the trial can proceed with out the presence of legal professionals: “If the legal professionals do not come, that is their downside. However they can not proceed to dam the trial. The Court docket should order the continuation of the process. »
Strengthened by the response of the Bar, Mohamed Diané will not be prepared, for something on this planet, to undergo the substantive debates at this stage of the process: “The President of the Bar talked about the choices of the Investigation Management Chamber and the ECOWAS Court docket of Justice. Till these are executed, I’ve nothing to say. I cannot help a parody of justice with political connotations,” he declared on the bar.
The decide despatched the case again to Could 27 for, as soon as once more, the fee of legal professionals to Mohamed Diané.
Yacine Diallo
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