Dec. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Guinean authorities have opened an investigation against former President Sékouba Konaté for his alleged responsibility for embezzlement and money laundering, in a second trial against him after the one initiated by the massacres of September 28, 2009 in the capital, Conakry.
Prosecutor Yamoussa Conté has sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice to notify the opening of a preliminary investigation against General Konaté, who was transitional president between 2009 and 2010, regarding the alleged embezzlement of 22 million dollars (about 20 .7 million euros).
Likewise, an international rogatory commission is underway against Konaté, who lives in France, in relation to the proceedings against the former head of the Presidential Guard Aboubacar Diakité for murder, death, rape and looting, according to the Guinean news portal Media. Guinea.
Konaté became president in December 2009 after the assassination attempt on Moussa Dadis Camara, then leader of the military junta created after the 2009 death of Lansana Conté. Camara was shot in the head by Diakité, while Konaté ultimately remained transitional president until the 2010 elections, in which Alpha Condé prevailed.
For his part, Diakité, known as ‘Toumba’, was a camera assistant and later head of the Presidential Guard, accused of the September 2009 massacres in the September 28 state of Conakry. In this process, Camara appears as the main defendant, although he has said during the trial that Condé, Konaté and Diakité were behind the massacres.
The Guinean authorities indicted Camara in July 2015 for the massacre inside the stadium, where hundreds of people asked him not to participate in the elections on October 11 in which he was running against the former president of Guinea Alpha Condé. A United Nations commission of inquiry determined that at least 156 people were killed and 109 women and girls raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence.
The events of September 28, 2009 are considered one of the worst acts of repression in West Africa. In the massacre, security forces opened fire on protesters calling on Dadis Camara not to stand in the 2010 elections.
