Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Mimi Mefo Info
Published on 2024-02-28 15:07:41
After several weeks of detention, the 45-year-old man accused of armed threats, rape, sequestration, sodomy among others must appear before the judicial authorities to determine his fate.
Is Herve Bopda heading towards release? The question is now recurring on the lips of several observers. Accused of raping hundreds of women and infecting them with HIV/AIDS, the alleged rapist was arrested a month ago. He was then referred to the public prosecutor’s office of the first instance court of Douala-Ndokoti, and then sent for further investigation to the judicial police of Bonanjo where the preliminary investigation is ongoing. While it was announced that he was carrying the AIDS virus, 3 first serology tests conducted on him turned out to be sero-negative, as well as a fourth test demanded by the prosecutor and carried out at the Pasteur Center. Our sources have suggested that the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC), responsible for the expertise of telephone conversations, has also been requested to reconstruct deleted messages from a complainant.
In the wake of this, it is learned that three complainants had fled the confrontation at the regional division of the judicial police after the publication of the results of the fourth serological test of the suspect conducted at the Pasteur Center in Yaoundé.
If the expertise of telephone conversations proves unsuccessful and the complainants withdraw their claims, the course of the case could change and Herve Bopda, who has been accused of raping over 100 women, could be released due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Within public opinion, some suspect a conspiracy concocted by members of the suspect’s family. There are talks of a inheritance dispute within this family of a deceased wealthy billionaire from Douala. His defenders indicate that his opponents took advantage of his violent nature to attribute all kinds of abuse to him.
Albert Atangana
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