Seventeen police officers were injured, some seriously, in spontaneous violent demonstrations on Tuesday and Wednesday in Conakry that followed the violent arrest of three leaders of the organization, Guinean police said on Thursday.
Clashes erupted between security forces and youth groups in neighborhoods on the outskirts of the capital to protest the arrest of members of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, a group that organized months-long protests against the former president from 2019 to 2021. Alpha Conde (2010-2021), who overthrew him in September September 2021 Military group led by Colonel Mamady Domboy. The demonstrators burned tires, built barricades, overturned garbage cans and threw stones at police officers who tried to disperse them with tear gas canisters. According to an AFP correspondent, fragile calm reigned in the capital on Thursday. These spontaneous demonstrations are of a protest nature for the first time since the seizure of power by Colonel Mamady Domboya.
The “Federal National Council for the Defense of the People” called for demonstrations on June 23, bypassing the ban imposed by the military council. He then interrupted his call the day before the demonstration to “give a chance” to the dialogue proposed by the transitional government. But after a recent meeting with her, the FNC denounced the “comedy of the meeting,” the “one-sided and authoritarian behavior of the transition process,” and “serious infringements on fundamental rights and freedoms.” On Tuesday, police brutally arrested national coordinator of the National People’s Defense Council Omar Sill aka Funiki Mengwe, Mamadou Bello Bach and rapper Alfa Medio Bach alias Dajani Alpha at their alliance headquarters where they were holding a press conference. Sela and Bach were beaten and the police tore their clothes. On Thursday, they were still in custody awaiting trial. Political figures condemned the arrest of the three men and expressed their dissatisfaction with this method. The transitional parliament, formed by the military council, said Tuesday that Silla and Bach will stand trial on charges of “creating and disseminating offensive language against the Transitional National Council through the information system.”
