2024-06-10 00:31:09
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Prosecuted for six offenses together with assassinations and murders, complicity in rape, kidnapping and sequestration, intentional assault and battery, armed theft and failure to help an individual in peril, Marcel Guilavogui has been positioned in detention on the Conakry central jail since June 2010.
This Tuesday, Could 28, 2024, on the event of the pleading of his lawyer who had a talking time of greater than 2 hours to show earlier than the prison court docket of Dixinn relocated to the Court docket of Attraction of Conakry, Me Sidiki Bérété says satisfied that his consumer just isn’t answerable for the information with which he’s accused as a result of there isn’t a factor of imputability, as a result of there isn’t a causal hyperlink, he says , between the accusations and him. “And the assertions and fabrications is not going to rise up in a prison court docket as a result of the costs are severe and heavy.” And consequently he pleaded not responsible for his consumer and requested the court docket to acquit him purely and easily.
On the primary offense alleged in opposition to his consumer regarding the assassination and homicide, this man in black costume will say that “For lack of identification, lack of causal hyperlink to acquit him, to place that apart, it can’t be maintain. (…) Accountability is sufficient for me. The bridge between the fault and the harm, I ask you to determine this bridge in order that this court docket returns, it’s time however it’s even unattainable as a result of you don’t have anything at hand, you solely have declarations , photographs, condemn somebody by picture! The assassination is severe, it’s severe to take a life (…),” defined Me Sidiki Bérété.
Talking in regards to the acts of kidnapping and sequestration alleged in opposition to his consumer, Mr. Bérété was very clear: “We wish to know the victims of Marcel’s kidnappings, who he kidnapped and sequestered, the place? It was Marcel who kidnapped me and who left to maintain me, let me be proven. Anyway, thus far it is there. Simply imagine it’s by saying in a crude manner, prison regulation is much from that…”
On the armed theft, this lawyer wonders who he stole from? And the place did he fly? And what did he steal and from whom? “The prosecution should reply, who did he rob? What did you see with him? , the place are the stolen objects sealed? (…). Your honor, honorable assessors earlier than nationwide and worldwide opinion it’s time to show…And if in case you have nothing at hand, have the braveness as a result of the regulation authorizes you to pursue fees and discharges.”
On complicity in rape, right here too, Mr. Bérété asks himself a sure variety of questions. “Who’s the principle perpetrator of rape that Marcel licensed, allowed to occur. Take a look at your referral order even in case you ask to order it for rape, you can’t nonetheless deviate the seizure act however you are able to do greater than that as a result of the reclassification was not connected to the deserves however you, you had the braveness to ask with out it being held again. Fortuitously it’s not debated, the automated rejection, which suggests you will have requested in a vacuum, we can’t organize them for an untried offense” he stated, whereas specifying that among the many 6 offenses alleged in opposition to his consumer, no offense can rise up.
Mamadou Yaya Barry