2023-11-06 10:39:18
The Guinean public prosecutor’s office indicated Monday that at least nine people were killed on November 4 in Conakry in the commando operation which allowed the release of former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara as well as three of his fellow prisoners.
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The attack launched on Saturday, November 4 by a heavily armed commando on the Conakry prison to free the former head of the Guinean junta, Moussa Dadis Camara, and three fellow prisoners, would have left at least nine dead according to the general prosecutor’s office.
Among the victims are four members of the security forces and two occupants of an ambulance, apparently civilians, according to a still provisional assessment put forward in a press release by Attorney General Yamoussa Conte. The other three dead are suspected attackers.
Members of the commando attacked the central prison located in the heart of the Guinean capital in the early hours of Saturday and extracted Moussa Dadis Camara and three other prisoners. All four are currently on trial for a massacre committed in 2009 under the presidency of Moussa Dadis Camara.
Three of them, including the former head of state, were recaptured the same day, without it being clear whether they had escaped or been taken once morest their will, as their lawyers say. .
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A fourth man, Claude Pivi, who is also among the main defendants in the trial, is still on the run.
The Attorney General indicated in his press release that he was launching proceedings once morest Moussa Dadis Camara and his three fellow prisoners for assassination of members of the security forces and manslaughter.
Moussa Dadis Camara and ten military and government officials have been answering since September 2022 in court for a litany of murders, acts of torture, rapes and other kidnappings committed on September 28, 2009 and the following days by security forces in a stadium of the suburb of Conakry, where tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered, and surrounding areas.
At least 156 people were killed and hundreds injured, and at least 109 women raped, according to the report of a commission of inquiry mandated by the UN.
The junta which took power by force in September 2021 published a series of texts on Sunday evening pronouncing the dismissal of dozens of soldiers and prison administration agents.
With AFP
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