Accused of torture and targeted by several complaints in France, the Emirati Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi is the favorite of the vote for the presidency of the international police organization.
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there will be a torturer at the head of Interpol? This hypothesis does not fall under fiction. The Future President of the International Criminal Police Organization, headquartered in Lyon, must be designated at a general meeting scheduled for 23 to 25 November in Istanbul (Turkey). And the favorite of the vote is the very controversial General Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi, Inspector General of the Ministry of the Interior of the United Arab Emirates. The latter, who has been campaigning for months, has long been the only candidate in the running. The Czech Sarka Havrankova, already vice-president of the European division of Interpol, recently declared.
Emirates, rising power of the Persian Gulf, do not hide their willingness to promote and disseminate their model, makes liberalism consumerist, military and diplomatic activism and political authoritarianism – parties and unions are prohibited -, implemented by an all-powerful state apparatus and without any counter-power.
The United Arab Emirates are involved in multiple scandals of listening and hacking. They are suspicious of having hacked the telephone of the emir of Qatar, an enemy juror of the Emirati leaders, and to have created a false in order to justify the blocking of Qatar by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt from June 2017 to January 2021. More recently, the Emirates were cited as one of the most recourse of the Pegasus spyware, allowing fraudulently to spy and take control of smartphones.
Targeted by several complaints for torture
But there is more serious. General Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi is targeted by several complaints in France for torture on the basis of the universal jurisdiction of French justice. The first was filed in June by the lawyer William Bourdon with the specialized pole in war crimes and the crimes against the humanity of the Paris prosecutor’s office on behalf of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR). Another complaint about the same legal foundations was filed in Lyon by M e on behalf of AFD International.
The complaint of M e Bourdon aims at General Al-Raisi for his role in the detention of the poet, engineer and human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, arrested in 2017 and sentenced the following year. term of a trial simulacrum to ten years of imprisonment for “invasion of the reputation of the State”. Its conditions of detention, described as “medieval” in the complaint – it is in isolation in a cell of 4 m 2 , deprived of visits -, are similar to “torture” and “acts of barbarism”, note the complaint.
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