Charges against the 84-year-old former president and his allies range from complicity in murder and assault to destruction of property, according to a document signed by the chief prosecutor.
Guinea’s attorney general has ordered a lawsuit against former President Alpha Conde and 26 of his former employees for alleged crimes, including acts of violence at work.
Charges against the 84-year-old Conde and his allies range from complicity in murder and assault to destruction of property, according to a document signed by the chief prosecutor.
Other alleged crimes include detention, torture, abduction, disappearance, rape and other sexual abuse and robbery.
Former officials to be prosecuted include a former chairman of the Constitutional Court, former parliament speakers, a former prime minister and many former ministers, legislators and heads of security services.
Prosecutor Alphonse Charles Wright told AFP that the order to initiate legal proceedings followed a complaint filed by the National Front for the Protection of the Constitution (FNDC), a group of umbrellas that led protests against the former president.
Anger against Conde, who became the first democratically elected president in the country’s history in 2010, has intensified after changing the constitution to run for a third term in October 2020.
His main rival, Chelu Dalein Diallo and other opposition candidates, say there are irregularities in the official results that led him to victory with 59.5 per cent of the vote.
Repeated protests have led to dozens of deaths, including at least 17 in clashes between protesters and police after the vote.
Conde was overthrown in a military coup last September by army officers led by Colonel Mamadi Dumbuya, a former special forces commander.
Since then, Dumbuya has been sworn in as interim president and cracked down on alleged corruption by the former regime.
Conde’s future has become a major problem between the military and the ECOWAS regional bloc since the coup.
He was initially detained and then allowed to go to the United Arab Emirates for treatment in January, returning home on April 10.
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