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Gabonese government denies torture and ill-treatment of former President Bongo
The Government of Gabon has denied torturing and mistreating former President Ali Bongo, and said he is free to leave the country, in response to a complaint filed in France by his family's lawyers.
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"The government wishes to state" that the Bongo family is not being subjected "to any form of torture or mistreatment, as their lawyers claim", government spokesperson Laurence Ndong said on Wednesday evening, in a statement broadcast on state television channel Gabon 1.
On Tuesday, the Bongo family's French lawyers filed a complaint in France, denouncing the "illegal detention", "aggravated kidnapping by acts of torture" and "acts of barbarism" committed against several members of Bongo's family.
Rejecting the "slanderous and false accusations that harm Gabon's image", the government spokesperson said that the former president's wife, Sylvia Bongo, a Franco-Gabonese citizen, and their son, Nourredine Bongo, had been "charged with extremely serious crimes".
"We recall that former President Ali Bongo Ondimba is free to leave the country whenever he wishes", she continued, saying that the government reserves the right to take legal action in response to these accusations.
Heir to the Bongo dynasty, which has held power in Gabon for nearly 55 years, Ali Bongo was overthrown in a military coup on 30 August 2023.
The putschists, led by General Brice Oligui Nguema, accused Ali Bongo's inner circle, particularly his wife and son, of having mismanaged the country and of having plundered Gabon through a massive diversion of public funds.
Ali Bongo was placed under house arrest on the day of the coup, but was given freedom of movement a week later.
The military appears to have quickly cleared him, considering that he was "manipulated" by his wife and son.
According to the family's French lawyers, Noureddin Bongo was "tortured several times, beaten with a hammer and a crowbar, strangled, whipped and electrocuted with a taser".
Sylvia Bongo, who was forced to watch the torture (...), was also beaten and strangled, "as part of a rampant plundering of the family's assets", they said.
According to one of the lawyers, "those responsible for these acts will have to answer before the French justice system", and the perpetrators "are liable to a criminal prison sentence that could go as far as life imprisonment".
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