The request for a judgment by Guillaume Soro’s relatives continued on Friday 10 February in the Abidjan court. Eleven people were tried there on charges of “criminal conspiracy” and “attempting to undermine state security” during the failed return of their leader to Ivory Coast in December 2019. Among them are Guillaume Soro’s former director of protocol, Souleymane Koné Kamaraté, and his former security chief Jean-Baptiste Kouamé. Minutes of the last hearing.
In a last pleading, the defense attorneys gradually succeeded in dropping the charges against their clients. Since the trial began, some of them have condemned the political process. “The facts of the attacks and the conspiracy were never shown and characterized,” Me Touré emphasizes. Before we finally say: “All this is arbitrary, we ask for a general acquittal. »
A sometimes emotionally charged exercise, especially when Me Souleymane Diallo reads a message from Souleymane Koné Kamaraté’s mother, nicknamed “Soul to Soul”: a letter in which the mother of former protocol director Guillaume Soro denounced “an injustice”, according to her. punishing her son.