In Karabük, in northern Turkey, a court pronounced an acquittal on December 17, 2024 in the trial for the death of Jeannah “Dina” Danys Dinabongho Ibouanga, a 17-year-old Gabonese student. Only one man was tried, released at the end of the hearing. Dina's body was found in a river in March 2023. The case still contains many gray areas, despite the insistence of the family and its lawyers.
With our correspondent in Ankara, Anne Andlauer
Against the advice of the prosecution, the only suspect in the murder of young Dina, a 55-year-old man, was therefore acquitted of the two charges for which he was being tried: “assassination” and “sexual assault”.
This verdict, subject to appeal, is a huge disappointment for Dina's family, as was the investigation and trial themselves. While considering the suspect – ultimately acquitted – as responsible for her death, the family's lawyers continued to criticize the justice system for not being interested in other suspects and in the facts that occurred just before the young Gabonese woman does not leave her building. Or rather, before she ran away. Because video surveillance images show her running out of the building, barefoot and in the middle of the night. And all this before she stopped the lone suspect's car.
Several gray areas
However, several witnesses claimed to have seen Dina that evening, held against her will, in the basement of her building.
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