The authorities assure that the president of the Chadian human rights organization, Baradine Berdei Targuio, would be at the head of this maneuver.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
The government of Chad said Thursday, January 5 in a statement having thwarted a “attempted destabilization” aimed at undermining “constitutional order and the institutions of the Republic”.
“This plan has been developed by a limited group of conspirators made up of eleven army officers with the man named Baradine Berdei Targuio, president of the Chadian human rights organization [OTDH]”, assured the Government, specifying that the security services had carried out their “arrest from December 8, 2022”.
According to Aziz Mahamat Saleh, Minister of Communication and Government spokesperson, “judicial information was opened against these people for infringement of constitutional order, an association of criminals, illegal detention of firearms and complicity “.
“The investigating judge in charge (…) proceeded to them (…) by placing them under a warrant of deposit”, underlines the press release from his services. “The legal proceedings follows its course and the government intends to shed light on this affair and situate the responsibilities,” concludes the minister.
In February 2021, Baradine Berdei Targuio, had been sentenced to three years in prison for damage to constitutional order for having written that the then president, Idriss Déby Itno, died in April 2021 and father of the current President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, was “seriously ill” and “hospitalized”.
m. Berdei Targuio is an activist known to human rights in Chad and the OTDH was created in 2006. He was regularly the author of criticism with regard to the Head of State and the regime on social networks.
Propelled to power to the death of his father killed at the front against rebels on April 20, 2021 after having directed the country with an iron fist for thirty years, General Mahamat Déby had dissolved the Parliament, dismissed the government, repealed the constitution and promised to return power to civilians during elections “free and democratic”.
The 1 er October 2022, Chad has extended its transition period maximum to elections, maintaining the head of the Mahamat Déby state which will be authorized to run for the presidency .
On October 20, a demonstration against the power and the extension of the transition period had killed around fifty people, according to the authorities, mainly in the capital, when the police had opened fire on the lesser attempt to gather.
The power then recognized the arrest of 601 people in the capital and their transfer to the high security prison of Koro Toro. The Head of State accused them of having wanted to lead a “insurrection” and an attempted “coup”. Since its independence from France in 1960, the history of Chad has been paved with rebel state and offensive.