Burkina: international arrest warrant against the wife of the head coup Gilbert Diendéré

Military justice launched an international arrest warrant against Fatou Diallo Diendéré born, the wife of General Gilbert Diendéré, the leader of the failed coup on September 17 in Burkina Faso, did on Tuesday judicial source in Ouagadougou.
“There is only one international mandate that was launched for the time in the coup. It is against Fatou Diendéré “he told AFP the director of military justice, Colonel Sita Sangare.
Former mayor of the municipality of Baskuy, a district of the capital, Ms. Diendéré was then elected to the National Assembly in 2002 and re-elected in his constituency until 2012 in the province Passoré (north) to the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP). This is the party of former President Blaise Compaoré, chased by the street during the insurrection of October 2014 after 27 years in power.
Deemed to be a very influential woman of character in the former parliamentary majority, it was one of the figures of the CDP. His candidacy in the parliamentary was rejected by the Constitutional Council as well as those of fifty of his party comrades because she had supported the constitutional reform that would allow Compaore to run for a new term.
“Other (mandates) are in preparation as it takes to make all the checks for the exact identity of the person”, said the military magistrate Mr Sangaré.

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