Malian justice indicted six civilian figures Thursday, December 31, including a former prime minister and a popular radio host, and imprisoned five of them for an alleged coup attempt according to their lawyers, four and a half months after the last putsch dated in the country at war.
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The Bamako prosecutor's office announced in a press release the opening of a judicial investigation against six personalities, including the last Prime Minister before the August coup, Boubou Cissé, for "
conspiracy against the government, criminal association, offending person of the Head of State and complicity
”. They are implicated "
for (alleged) acts of attempted coup
", underlined in a press release the collective of lawyers who defend them.