“After several long years of impunity … the responsibility of the authors, accomplices and the one who gave orders will be exposed at last.”
In this file photograph taken on January 29, 2020, former rebel leader and would-be Ivory Coast presidential candidate Guillaume Soro poses during a photo session in Paris. – Ivory Coast’s former prime minister Guillaume Soro, a rebel leader before he entered politics, is facing a lawsuit in France for war crimes, torture and murder, lawyers told AFP on May 8, 2020.
The plaintiffs say the case is being filed in France because Soro has been living in the country since 2019. The Abidjan court fined him nearly seven million euros , ordered the confiscation of his Abidjan home and barred him from civic duties for five years, which effectively eliminates the 47-year-old from contesting presidential elections due in October.The latest lawsuit was filed on Thursday, the plaintiffs’ lawyers told AFP.
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