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Chief Warrant Officer Moussa Nébié, known as Rambo, the leader of the group that perpetrated the failed coup d'etat of 2015 in Burkina Faso, acknowledged Friday the events of "attack on state security".
"On the afternoon of September 16 (2015), I received an order from my supervisor, Major-Warrant Officer Eloi Badiel asking me to arrest the President of the Transition and from his prime minister, "said Chief Warrant Officer Nébié at the helm.
" I started a vehicle, took on board men and we went to the presidency where the cabinet was held. After having inquired about the council room, one of the men opened the door to me and I told President Kafando (Michel) that we were attacked and that we had to put him in a safe place. " , he continued.
"Without hesitation, the president followed me and I took him in his vehicle with his bodyguard who drove him to the residence and followed aboard of another vehicle, "detailed the 53-year-old NCO
Diendéré implicated for the first time
" After the arrests, he was asked to go and get General Diendéré. I volunteered and, with three other NCOs, we went to the home of General (Diendéré) to whom we reported the arrest of the two authorities. He asked to take him to the central command post of the RSP camp, which we did. "
Tuesday, General Gilbert Diendéré, one of the brains alleged coup failed was put involved for the first time since the commencement of the trial by a co-accused.
General Diendéré "instructed (given the instruction) to make the coup", said the adjutant Jean-Florent Ion, fourth accused to testify in this landmark trial
On September 16, 2015, soldiers of the Presidential Security Regiment (RAP) tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the transitional government set up after the fall of the president Blaise Compaore. The RAP was the former Praetorian guard of Mr. Compaore, chased in October 2014 by the street after 27 years in power.
Chief Warrant Officer Nébié assumes what he did, according to his lawyer
General Diendéré had explained during the instruction to have "had to assume the putsch perpetrated by a group of elements" of the ex-RAP, according to the military floor.
He is the main accused of the trial with the general Djibril Bassolé, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Compaoré regime.
The failed coup d'etat left 14 dead and 270 wounded.
For his lawyer, Solange Zéba, the chief warrant officer Nébié "assumes what he did , including the act he has posed. He admits that he was the one who arrested the president of the transition without violence. "
However, she says," the fact of arresting an authority on its own does not constitute a coup d'etat. "[19659003] The hearing was suspended and resumed on Saturday.
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