This unprecedented tragedy in our country requires the mobilization of a group of 6 experts from outsidewith a view to carrying out the identification of the remains, “calcined” for the most part, and taking samples, the results of which make it possible to identify the bodies.
The investigation immediately launched by the Gabonese justice system led to the placement in police custody of certain managers, in particular the general director Adrien Broche, his deputy Nestor Awaurhet and the workover manager, Augustin de Lapasse. The public prosecutor's office at the Port-Gentil court of first instance, which had instructed the Judicial Police Officers (OPJ), charges them with endangering the lives of others and involuntary manslaughter.
If the executives arrested on the morning of May 17, 2024 are released after a few hours spent in police custody in the premises of the Ocean gendarmerie unit, this case does not create less serious tensions between the general prosecutor's office and the public prosecutor's office of the capital of the province of Ogooué-Maritime.
So much so that the head of the first department, who is also the hierarchical superior of the second, decides to suspend the latter from his duties for insubordination. A situation which the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM) is also looking into.
Note the trip of Prime Minister Raymond Ndong Sima to Port-Gentil on March 23, 2024, at the head of a five-member delegation from his government, in particular to pay tribute to the victims.
