The case makes a big splash and feeds all the conversations in the political behind the scenes of the sub-region. According to the revelations of the observer, Mouhamed Fofana, former unhappy candidate for the Guinean presidential election in 2020, is today at the heart of a incredible scandal mixing theft, manipulation and accusations of political machination.
On March 18, 2025, the tranquility of the Blaise Diagne International airport (AIBD) of Diass was disturbed by an unusual affair: no less than 33 suitcases belonging to various passengers would have been stolen. And the main suspect is none other than Mouhamed Fofana, boss of the Pan -African Party of Guinea (PPG).
It all starts when Fofana, who had declared the loss of two of his luggage two days earlier, returns to the airport to make a new reservation. Taking advantage of the arrival of a flight, he would then have taken advantage of the confusion to fraudulently appropriate freshly landed suitcases, according to the images of the surveillance cameras operated by the airport police.
The observer reports that things have accelerated as soon as he arrest. A search carried out in his hotel room in Dalifort allows the discovery of a suitcase containing clothes, watches and jewelry. But the most shocking remains to come: in a shop belonging to him in Bignona, the investigators set their hands on 19 suitcases full of personal effects, all identified as belonging to passengers victims of theft. At the time of the respondent, 14 other suitcases are found, full of clothing and cosmetic products. The total is final: 33 suitcases seized and brought back to the airport police station.
Some victims, informed of the seizure, were able to recover their property. But for Mouhamed Fofana, all of this is just a vast plot. Before the Mbour tribunal de grande instance, he denied the facts as a whole, claiming that these would only be 14 empty suitcases intended for the transport of electoral campaign equipment in Guinea. He refutes being the man filmed by the cameras, despite the confrontations with the images at the helm.
Fofana shouts at the political cabal: “We want to dirty my name to definitively deviate from the political game,” he argued. The prosecutor does not believe in the conspiracy thesis and requested 5 years in prison against him. A victim also asked for 1 million CFA francs in damages.
The verdict will be returned on April 22, a date now scrutinized closely both by the courts and political, as this case goes beyond the simple framework of the news.
