Moussa Dadis Camara is back in prison, his lawyer announced this Saturday, November 4 in the afternoon. The former Guinean president, detained at the Central House of Conakry for more than a year, was taken out of his cell this morning shortly before dawn by a heavily armed commando.
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Since he was taken out of his cell this Saturday morning, Moussa Dadis Camara was wanted across the capital, patrolled by the Defense and Security Forces. According to Dadis Camara’s lawyer, it was not an escape, but rather a kidnapping.
The lawyer explains to RFI that the former president was suddenly awakened in his sleep, before armed men forcibly removed him from his cell along with his three fellow prisoners, Colonel Moussa Tiegboro Camara, Colonel Claude Pivi and gendarme Blaise Goumou.
All have been in prison for more than a year, at least, and all are being prosecuted for their alleged role in the massacre of September 28, 2009 which caused the death of nearly 160 people and the rape of around a hundred women.
According to Maître Lamah, Dadis Camara was therefore kidnapped by this armed group. He was able to speak to his client by telephone who explained to him that he had managed to escape from his alleged captors, before heading back to prison, even if the lawyer did not wish to detail the exact conditions in which the former head of the CNDD junta returned to the Central House.
Colonel Tiegboro, also released from prison, also told his lawyer that he had deceived the vigilance of his captors, before leaving them company and returning to his cell.
In a press release, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces does not confirm these two versions and instead claims to have “ put an end to the run » prisoners and assures that “ all security measures have been taken to find the last fugitive, Claude Pivi“.
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