The Guinean authorities offered a reward equivalent to more than 50 thousand euros for the capture of the last former senior official under the presidency of Moussa Dadis Camara, after escaping from prison last Saturday, in a commando operation, launched by heavily armed men.
Moussa Dadis Camara and three other prisoners from Conakry’s central prison, including the fugitive, are being tried for a massacre committed in 2009, in one of the most negative pages in the country’s history. The operation left at least nine dead, according to the Public Ministry. Captain Dadis Câmara and two other prisoners were recaptured on the same day.
Claude Pivi, one of the strong men of the junta that governed the Republic of Guinea between 2008 and 2009 under the command of Captain Dadis Camara, for whom he was minister, is still “actively sought nationally and internationally”, said yesterday the Minister of Justice , Alphonse Charles Wright, in a statement cited by AFP.
Authorities are offering a reward of 500 million Guinean francs (54,100 euros) “to anyone who helps or facilitates his detention,” he said. A toll-free telephone number has been created and special protective measures will be taken for that person, he said. Dadis Camara, Pivi and nine other former officials have been on trial since September 2022 for a series of murders, acts of torture, rapes and other kidnappings committed on September 28, 2009 and in the following days by security forces in and around around a stadium on the outskirts of Conakry, where tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered.