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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." 19659002] "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 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 I followed aboard of another vehicle, "detailed the 53-year-old NCO.
" 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. The latter asked to take him to the central command post of the RSP camp, which we did. "
Tuesday, General Gilbert Diendéré, one of the suspected brains of the coup d'etat Missed state was implicated for the first time since the opening of the trial by a co-defendant. General Diendéré "instructed (given the instruction) to make the coup," said adjutant Jean-Florent Ion, fourth accused to testify in this historic trial.
Diendéré implicated by a co-accused
On September 16, 2015, soldiers of the Presidential Security Regiment ( RAP ) had unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the transitional government set up after the fall of President Blaise Compaore. RAP was the former Praetorian guard of Mr. Compaore, who was chased in October 2014 by the street after 27 years in power.
General Diendéré had explained during the training "to have had to assume the putsch perpetrated by a group of elements "of the former RAP according to the military prosecutor's office.
He is the main accused of the trial with the general Djibril Bassolé, former foreign minister of the Compaoré regime . The failed coup d'etat killed 14 people and wounded 270.
For his lawyer, Solange Zéba, Chief Warrant Officer Nébié "assumes what he did, including the act he did. He admits to being the one who arrested the president of the transition without violence. "
However, she says," the fact of arresting an authority alone does not constitute a coup d'etat ". The hearing has been suspended and will resume on Saturday.
AFP
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