Maguy Mata Lumungu, defendant and owner of the Chez Momo hostel where Christian Malanga had been accommodated, requested his provisional release. It was at the hearing this Friday, June 14, 2024 in the case of the failed coup d’état and the attack on the residence of Vital Kamerhe.
Speaking at the hearing, the defendant’s lawyers affirmed that Christian Malanga presented himself at the Chez Momo hostel to be accommodated there using a false status and a false identity; They consider the detention of their client irregular and request her provisional release.
They thus asked the court to “find that this situation is contrary to the law, and that it pleases the court to grant provisional release to my client, to declare your jurisdiction incompetent because they are civilians and do not have nothing with the army, to order the restitution of all the property that was confiscated. To order the evacuation of soldiers from the intelligence services.”
All the defendants are being prosecuted for terrorism, illegal possession of weapons of war, attempted murder, criminal association, murder, financing of terrorism. Offenses punishable up to the death penalty, which could be carried out following the lifting of the moratorium on March 13, 2024.
