2024-05-07 09:14:00
Bad weather for the former President of Central Africa François BOZIZÉ, who found refuge in Guinea Bissau after years of flight. While the new President of Senegal Bassirou Diomaye FAYE was expected in Bissau, the Special Criminal Court of Central Africa issued an international arrest warrant on April 30 against the former strongman of Bangui.
Still according to the arrest warrant, the former president’s presidential guard and other forces and internal security services committed the crimes, in the civil prison and the military training center in the town of Bossembélé located in the Ombella-M’ Prefecture Poko, 160 km north of Bangui.
“The investigation leading to the issuance of the international arrest warrant was opened on March 4, 2021,” we read in the press release.
“The investigations carried out and the cross-checking of the information collected led the investigation office to the conclusion that there were serious and consistent clues against former President François Bozizé Yangouvonda,” the text continues.
The press release states that these indications are likely to incur criminal liability individually and/or jointly, with others and also in his capacity as a hierarchical leader and as a military leader.
The Coalition of Fighters for Change (CPC, an alliance of rebel groups that Bozizé took over in March 2021) has not yet responded to this international arrest warrant.
Michel Djotodia abandoned a coup d’état on François Bozizé on 24 March 2013. Today, at the head of one of the main rebels in Central Africa, he is in exile in Guinea Bissau.
The Special Criminal Court (SCC) was created in June 2015 to try the perpetrators of the most serious crimes, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide, committed in the CAR.
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