On February 19, Boubacar Sanso Barry, columnist and general administrator of the general information site Ledjely.com, was interviewed for ”investigation purposes” at the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police in Kaloum. For the moment, no charges have been brought against the colleague.
The hearing of Boubacar Sanso Barry was to be held on February 16, the summons received the day before. But his hearing was postponed at the request of his lawyers who invoked the filing of the letter of constitution in defense of the colleague.
Boubacar Sanso Barry’s troubles began when this article: “ Urgent: the internet portal of Conakry airport, target of a cyber-attack » was published on ledjely.com on February 8. The computer attack against the website of the Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport in Conakry is claimed by hackers from the group ”Anonymous 224”. It intervenes, according to the authors, in response to the restriction of the internet in Guinea since November 2023. “Free the internet, the internet is a right” which Anonymous 224 had displayed in large font on the home page of the portal. Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport in Conakry.
This February 19, at the end of six hours of hearing, Me Moussa Sidibé, lawyer for Boubacar Sanso Barry, explains: “We responded to the summons in relation to the attack by hackers against the computer system of the International Airport Ahmed Sékou Touré from Conakry. But everything suggests that the questions that were asked of Boubacar Sanso Barry are not likely to implicate him in anything. He answered the questions well. For the moment, nothing is being held against him, but as it is an investigation which is open, at any time, they may need us to be heard on other subjects relating to this question. And, we will come and respond.”
Me Moussa Sidibé specifies that as the investigation is ongoing, it is not possible to designate who is responsible for the cyber-attack and who is not. But, the lawyer believes that the answers provided by his client to the police investigating officers assure him that Boubacar Sanso Barry will no longer be recalled for questioning in this case. However, “caution must be observed, since the investigation is not complete. We can be called back at any time.”
The hearing of Boubacar Sanso Barry comes in a context of muzzling of the press and restriction of the internet for months. Several radios are jammed, televisions disconnected from Canal+ and StarTimes packages. Sékou Jamal Pendessa, journalist-unionist, has been languishing in prison since January 22, for “participation in an unauthorized meeting, criminal participation in an unarmed gathering, harm and threat of harm to public order, public security, to the integrity and dignity of individuals through a computer system, and complicity”. His trial is expected on February 20 at the Dixinn Magistrate’s Court.
Yaya Doumbouya
2024-02-19 18:11:00