04 novembre 2007
CHAD: SEND BACK HOME TO FRANCE ZOE’S ARK PERSONNEL
According to Mr. Ahmad Daoud Chari, the state prosecutor of
Abeche---the Chadian city where the staff members of the French group “Arche de Zoe”
were arrested with more than one hundred children ready to be flown to
France---the penal code of Chad is just a blank register: there are no
laws written in the books to deal with such crimes. “There are no other penalties in the abduction chapter [of the criminal code] stronger than the one we chose,”
Mr. Chari told reporters of IRIN, the news agency of the UN Office for
the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs. He then added: “Our penal code is limited. It doesn't cover [many] infractions. There is a gap.”
In other words, Chad is a nomad rogue lawless state. One then wonders
on what basis the Chadian Chief Prosecutor is seeking 20 years against
the suspects. Worse, in a country where the whims of the head-of-state
have oftentimes force of law (where the court system has no jury of
peers), President IDRISS DEBY, in a rush of hot blood into his brains,
hurled vile abuse at the suspects in front of the world media, accusing
them, without one iota of evidence, of being part of a vast network of
criminals specialized in supplying new flesh to pedophiles and body
parts to rogue organ banks! The spectacle at the Airport of N'Djamena,
the Chadian capital, just showed the world how so-called conspiracies
by opposition leaders are cooked by paranoid African heads of states to
justify the extra-judicial elimination of their political enemies. In
the meantime, Chadians are cheering their president for having thumbed
his nose at the whites all the while forgetting about the ongoing
rebellion and the government's lack of transparency in managing the oil
royalty revenues. The news this morning is that French President
Nicolas Sarkozy is heading to Chad for talks with President Deby to
free at least the 3 French journalists and the Spanish female
crewmembers being also held as accessories. This smacks of utter
diplomatic stupidity. French authorities knew about Zoe's Ark trip
months ago. It's even the French Airforce that helped them all along.
Observers fear that Sarkozy is trying to save the EUFOR troop
deployment along the Chadian-Darfur border in sudden jeopardy because
of this diplomatic debacle and would readily leave Zoe's Ark members to
rot in Chadian insanitary jails... Until Chad stops being a nomad rogue
lawless state and actually starts writing laws, it has no business
holding foreign subjects in its custody. If crime was in progress, send
back home to France Zoe's Ark personnel to face trial...
President IDRISS DEBY, right, hurling abuse at a Spanish suspect