Côte d'Ivoire : six personnes condamnées à la prison à vie pour l'attaque djihadiste de 2020
Six people have been sentenced to life imprisonment for a 2020 jihadist attack that killed 14 soldiers at a border post in Ivory Coast, a lawyer involved in the case told AFP on Tuesday.
Ivory Coast shares its northern border with Burkina Faso and Mali, two countries ravaged by attacks from Islamist extremists that have spread south towards the coastal countries.
Lawyer Abdoulaye Ben Meite said that six of the 45 defendants tried for the Kafolo attack were sentenced to life imprisonment, while 17 were sentenced to 20 years in prison and a fine of 50 million CFA francs ($89,000).
One person was sentenced to five years in prison and 21 others were acquitted, he added.
Armed men attacked the military post in the village of Kafolo, in the northeast of the country, on the night of June 10-11, 2020.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it has been attributed to jihadists operating across the border in Burkina Faso, in retaliation for a joint Ivorian and Burkinabe operation against extremists in the region.
Three Ivorian soldiers were also killed in March 2021 during an attack on two army positions near the border with Burkina Faso, including in Kafolo.
Nineteen people were killed in an attack on the seaside town of Grand-Bassam, east of Abidjan, in March 2016.
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