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The judgment of the failed coup of 2015 in Burkina Faso, continued on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 with the interrogation of Sergeant-Chief Roger Koussoubé nicknamed the "Touareg". According to the former presidential guard who believes he has worked to accompany the transition government, he and his element, Corporal Sami Dah foiled a putsch on July 25, 2015, which was intended, he said, to interrupt the transition.
The day after his statements considered by some parties including the prosecution and civil party, as "revelations" in this case, Sergeant Chief Roger Koussoubé who remained on his line of defense denying having been the messenger of General Gilbert Diendéré, presumed mastermind of the failed coup d'etat, has pressed charges against the Chief Warrant Officer Major Eloi Badiel and Warrant Officer Jean Florent Nion, which he describes as being close to General Djibrill Bbadolé, also accused in this attempt
According to Sergeant-Major Koussoubé, under the transition precisely on July 25, 2015, he and Corporal Sami Dah foiled a coup orchestrated by the ajor Eloi Badiel and adjutant Florent Nion. "It was Major Badiel and Warrant Officer Nion who organized the coup to arrest the transitional authorities," said the "Touareg," adding that the two NCOs "gathered about 45 young soldiers in the garage of the palace (presidential) in order to arrest the transitional authorities, who were at present holding the weekly Council of Ministers.
"They (Badiel and Nion) were ready to act if I did not had intervened five minutes before, "he says, looking convinced of his prowess. "When I was informed, I took Corporal Sami Dah and went to the palace," he said. Still according to his account of the facts, he tried to dissuade Major Badiel and Adjutant Nion. The latter, to believe the words of "Touareg" had "angry against him and set aside, because according to him, Zida being the source of divisions in the former Presidential Security Regiment" (RSP), he "did not understand why we are opposed to his arrest."
So, "I took Badiel by the side and I said major, do not let yourself be manipulated (since) the command was not aware of the act, adds Roger Koussoubé before stating that "it is at this moment that I do not know by what acrobatics, Dah Sami informed Captain Flavien Kaboré (the aide-de-camp of Zida ). It was after this information that Prime Minister Isaac Zida and his Minister of Security, Colonel Auguste Barry, hurriedly left the Council Chamber, "he concluded.
Following statements by Staff Sergeant Roger Koussoubé, who claims to know more but can not say more fearing for his safety and that of his family, the prosecution said he was taking his "revelations with reserve", pending confrontations and the other stages of this case in which 84 military and civilian persons are being prosecuted.
By Bernard BOUGOUM
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