Officially dissolved on August 8 by the Guinean junta, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution is once again in the news by filing a complaint against the president of the transition, Mamady Doumbouya in France on September 8, 2002. The coalition accuses the junta leader of “complicity in killings and torture,” especially in the July and August demonstrations organized by the FNDC, which resulted in several deaths.
Mamady Doumbouya is the target of a complaint in France. The strongman of Conakry is accused of “complicity in homicide and torture” in the anti-junta rallies during the period of July to mid-August 2022. Indeed, these accusations against the Colonel follow the violence recorded during the last demonstrations organized by the FNDC, which were not authorized by the government in place. These rallies resulted in several deaths, with the FNDC reporting that three of its members were shot dead.
In the complaint filed in Paris, the coalition denounced abuses attributable to the transitional authorities. It also indicates a “unilateral management of the transition” on the part of the junta.
Initially created to prevent a third term of the former President Alpha Conde, the FNDC, a coalition of political parties, trade unions and members of civil society, has become an opposition party to the junta and regularly protests against the actions of the Doumbouya government.
For the complainers, French justice is competent to say the law, because they no longer believe in the credibility of Guinean justice. And also because Colonel Mamady Doumbouya has a French nationality.
