Gabon/Ritual killings (warning: graphic pictures)
THE UNPUNISHED MASSACRE OF MABOUGNIE
THE biggest ritual murder of Gabon's history goes back to
the night of 25 to 26 July 2006 in Mabougnié, a town on the border of the
province of the Moyen-Ogooué (Lambaréné).
An octogenarian, Véronique Lekohouin, her daughter Véronique
Massibenguilé (55), her granddaughter Kessany Myriam, 32, her
great-grandchildren, Dieudonné Aaiun, 4, and Mary Mirianice Kombila Ibiatsi, 3
months, who lived all in Mawongo, a village located in the mining region of
Mabougnié, were exterminated with a machete by Justin Massandé, a man, 44,
adopted at a young age by the family of the victims.
The man had committed the killing with his friend, Anatole
Mboma, with the complicity of Massandé Valentin, Pierre Claver Nzanga Anatole
Nzanga and Diasbo Mouloungui. Thes criminals have removed organs and drawn
blood on their victims. After their dirty work, they burned the five bodies in
an attempt to remove traces of mutilation.
A few days after the massacre that shocked the whole country,
Massandé Mboma and his sidekick reported committing the massacre at the request
of a woman, Jeanne Bombé, sister-in-law of Martin Mabala, Minister of Forestry
at the time of the events. They said that it was the latter who had sponsored
the massacre.
Jeanne Bombé was finally arrested. But she was released with
the pressure from Minister Mabala, who was in France and had to rush back to
Libreville after the announcement of the arrest of the sister of his wife. To
prevent police officers from arresting his sister-in-law, he hosted her at his
home.
During the ministerial reshuffle after the tragedy, Martin
Mabala was appointed Minister of Justice. Curiously, it has not worked hard for
the truth in this case, even if the all five people exterminated were part of
his in-laws.
During his preventive detention, Anatole Mboma died at the
Central Prison in Lambaréné. Jeanne Bombé also died in August 2014. Other
people involved in the massacre were released and continue to take it easy. As
if nothing had happened.
Find the full story in ''the ugly face of Gabon '', to be
released soon in France.
Jonas Moulenda (gabonese investigative journalist in exile in France)
Echos du Nord
Marc 08, 2015
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