Me Mohamadou Paré, member of the SCPA Council, invited Friday to trust the Burkinabè justice which has just released its clients, the journalists Alain Traoré and Lookman Sawadogo for the benefit of the doubt.

“We must trust the justice of Burkina Faso. We deployed our arguments and legal means to say that what Alain Alain and Lookman were accused of was not proven and that we simply had to do them justice, ”said the lawyer for the defendants Alain Traoré dit Alain Alain and Lookman Sawadogo, Me Mohamadou Paré.

Me Paré was speaking at the High Court of Ouaga I following the verdict of the trial of “Marcel Tankoano and 9 others” on the audio case calling for the burning of the Mogho Naaba palace.

“It is a sensitive file and if a court manages to issue a release decision against certain defendants, we believe, we lawyers for Messrs. Traoré Alain and Sawadogo Lookman, that it is a courageous decision”, he affirmed.

For him, the court rendered a wise decision because “you have followed with us all the debates which have sometimes leaned towards the offense against state security”.

Note that the trial on the audio case calling for the burning of the Mogho Naaba palace began on June 21 and reached its verdict this Friday, July 7, 2023 at the TGI Ouaga I.

By the way, the court sentenced Marcel Tankoano, the mastermind, to four years in prison and a fine of 5 million FCFA, all firm.

Two years in prison and a fine of 1 million FCFA for Boukaré Tapsoba, while Karim Koné receives one year in prison and a fine of 1 million FCFA.

As for the defendants Pascal Zaïda and Abdoul Karim Baguian dit Lota, they were sentenced to 30 months with a fine of 2 million FCFA each.

Belem Souleymane, the only defendant who appeared free, for his part, got off with a six-month suspended prison sentence.

Source: Burkina Information Agency