A defence lawyer in the trial of a 2016 machine-gun assault on a beach resort in Ivory Coast that killed 19 people has urged the prosecution to “produce evidence” of the guilt of the accused, after a state prosecutor demanded a life sentence for the four defendants present at a trial.
Eric Saki argued for the dismissal of the case against the accuse in Ivory coast’s deadliest jihadist attack.
On Wednesday an Ivory Coast prosecutor urged life in jail for four suspects over one of West Africa’s bloodiest jihadist attacks — a 2016 machine-gun assault on a beach resort that killed 19.
State prosecutor Richard Adou demanded a life sentence for the four defendants present at a trial that started last month over the attack, saying it would be “an exemplary and dissuasive punishment”.