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Published on 2024-02-17 20:19:58
The first three tests conducted by laboratories have turned out negative, and the prosecutor, who does not seem to be sure of the results of these tests, has requested a fourth test to be carried out at the Pasteur Center.
Hervé Bopda, the sexual predator, is still in the hands of justice. The 45-year-old man, accused by several victims of sexual harassment, sodomy, armed threats, etc., was once again brought to the prosecutor’s office of the Douala-Ndokoti first instance court on Thursday, February 15, 2024. At the prosecutor’s office, Hervé Bopda was immediately sent back for further investigation to the judicial police of Bonanjo where the preliminary investigation is taking place. According to our sources, the prosecutor deemed the elements in the file to be incomplete. Additionally, the prosecutor requested a fourth serology test on Hervé Bopda, as the first three tests conducted on the alleged rapist had been declared negative. The new test will be carried out at the Pasteur Center for greater reliability.
Our sources suggest that the National Agency of Information and Communication Technologies, abbreviated as ANTIC, has been requested to reconstruct the deleted messages of a complainant. Therefore, the police will be responsible for collecting these elements and sending them back to the prosecutor’s office where Hervé Bopda will be brought before once the investigation is completed.
To date, more than eight complaints have been filed against Hervé Bopda, according to our sources. Among the reasons are: “Illegal possession of a weapon, fraud, conditional threats, gang rape, attempted abduction under threat of a weapon, various assaults, threats, sexual harassment, sodomy.”
Sent for the first time to the Military Tribunal of Douala, the case is now being played at the Douala first instance court. Indeed, “Hervé Bopda’s lawyers indicated during the preliminary investigation that the weapon he possessed was not a combat weapon but rather a protective weapon. The case will therefore move from the military tribunal to the high court of Douala-Bonanjo. This court will then declare itself incompetent in view of the offenses in the file. The most repressive offense is “rape.”
The Hervé Bopda case dates back just a few weeks, and the events mainly took place in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé. The victims’ denunciations have brought to light a vast network of pimping with accomplices among Cameroonian influencers and influencers and connections within the state apparatus. Some victims were minors at the time of the events.
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