Former Guinean PM Aristides Gomes files complaint against State of Guinea-Bissau

Former Guinean Prime Minister Aristides Gomes filed a criminal complaint against the State of Guinea-Bissau, after security forces tried to detain him without a warrant, in November, according to the document that Lusa had access to today.

The criminal complaint, presented to the Public Prosecutor at the Bissau Court of Appeal, “criminally reports against the State of Guinea-Bissau, Sandji Fati, Minister of the Interior, the Attorney General of the Republic, Bacari Biai, Attorney General of Republic at the time of the facts”, three public prosecutors and agents of the Ministry of the Interior.

Aristides Gomes returned to Bissau on November 18 to participate in the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) congress, after having left the country in 2021, after having been a refugee at the United Nations headquarters in Bissau since March 2020.

On the same day, during the PAIGC congress, the security forces tried to detain Aristides Gomes, who left the place and, according to party sources, is “safe”. Since then, the former prime minister has remained in hiding in the country.

“On November 18th, around 21:30, a group of about eight men from the Rapid Intervention Brigade, who were transported in at least two Ministry of Interior vehicles, in uniform, with AK’s, machine guns and cannons of gas, with their faces covered with handkerchiefs, invaded the hall where the congress was taking place to remove the complainant from there”, refers in the criminal complaint.

The criminal complaint also points out that the elements of the Ministry of the Interior “belong to the militia group sent to train in Turkey by Umaro Sissoco Embaló, who since February 2020 has assumed the functions of President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, having immediately dismissed the prime minister [Aristides Gomes], who, due to the legislative elections, occupied, by constitutional imperative, the position”.

With information from Lusa/MSN

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