The Conakry prosecution announces the death of a 58 -year -old man. The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC) counts 4 deaths and several seriously injured. Thursday’s demonstrations had already killed a dead.
Le Monde with AFP
New demonstrations against the power junta in Guinea left a dead on Friday July 29 in Conakry, according to the prosecution, four according to the organizers. In a statement read on public television, the Conakry prosecution said it was informed by a hospital in the Guinean capital of the reception on Friday of the “body of a 58 -year -old man who received a ball in his workplace” .
The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), coalition of parties, unions and organizations of civil society which had called for demonstrations, for its part reported “four dead and several shotwords including five of which would be between life and death “, in a statement sent to the France-Presse agency. In addition, four journalists were “attacked by demonstrators” on Friday, said in a statement the union of press professionals in Guinea (SPPG) who “condemns with the latest energy” these “retrograde” acts.
These violent demonstrations started on Thursday at the call of the FNDC to denounce the “unilateral management of the transition” by the junta. The National Alliance for Alternation and Democracy (Anad), another coalition formed of parties, movements and associations, and the former party in power, the gathering of the people of Guinea (RPG), joined Thursday At the call of the FNDC for demonstrations in Conakry and on August 4 throughout the national territory. Thursday’s demonstrations had already killed a dead, according to the FNDC whose assessment was not confirmed by the authorities.
confrontations in Conakry and its suburbs
The clashes between the police and young people broke out in Conakry on Friday morning, before stopping at midday to resume after, notably in Bambéto, Sonfonia and on the prince’s highway, des Areas located in the suburbs, according to a journalist from the France-Presse agency and witnesses.
Young people burned tires and overturned garbage cans on the road and stalled the vehicles of the police who retaliated by tear gas shots, according to the same sources. Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who spilled President Alpha Condé on September 5 for more than ten years (2010-2021), has committed to handing power to elected civilians within three years.
The junta proclaimed on May 13 the prohibition “until the periods of electoral campaign” of any event on the public highway “likely to compromise social tranquility and correct execution of activities” during the three years supposed to Precede a return of civilians at the head of the country. The FNDC had already called upon to demonstrate on June 23, in addition to the prohibition enacted by the junta. However, he had suspended his call the day before the demonstration, to “give a chance” to the dialogue proposed by the transitional government.
But after the last meeting with the government, the FNDC had denounced “a meeting parody”, as well as “the solitary and authoritarian conduct of the transition” and “the serious attacks on fundamental rights and freedoms”. Speaking Thursday in Bissau, during a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, the practicing president of the organization of West African States, Umaro Sissoco Pacheo, assured that she had convinced the junta to accelerate the return to democracy.