Lawyer Hervé Diakese, spokesperson for Together for the Republic, on Thursday, February 29, referred to the report of the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, which concluded that the suicide of the former Minister of Transport and national deputy, Cherubin Okende, a member of Together, as "scandalous conclusions, unacceptable denial of justice".
Mr. Diakese declared in this regard that everything will be done to support the family of the deceased in their efforts to obtain justice otherwise.
"These conclusions have scandalized us and revolted us. It leads us to conclude that Congolese justice does not want the truth to emerge in the case of Cherubin Okende. This conclusion is a denial of justice because by concluding suicide, the investigation is closed, there is no longer a homicide. And this is totally unacceptable," Mr. Diakese insisted.
For him, even if one follows the logic of the Attorney General, the latter "does not specify the cause of the suicide, whether it was by asphyxiation, strangulation, or gunshot? Only the forensic doctor's report, thus the autopsy report, could have provided the exact causes and time of death as well as the probable circumstances of death. And the Congolese justice does not want to make it available to the family."
The spokesperson for Moïse Katumbi's political party stressed that this report has always been demanded by the family.
In the course of his communication, the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation indicated that all the reports from national and international experts, including South Africans, from the UNJHRO and a Belgian as a simple observer, converge to the same conclusion, namely suicide by gunshot.
MMC / RO