Defense Counsel of Martinez Zogo’s family to take legal actions against counterpart for assault

Lawyers defending the rights of the family of Martinez Zogo, the Amplitude FM Director, killed in January 2023, say they will not allow the lawyers of accused, Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga go scot-free after violently molesting a member of their team, Bar. Émilienne MINDZEME ONDOA, on Thursday April 27.

On this same day the Centre Court of Appeal rejected another request to release Amougou Belinga on bail.

“While the Court of Appeal of the Centre region (Yaoundé) rendered its verdict, logically rejecting as the law requires, the request for the release of Mr. AMOUGOU BELINGA, our colleague Bar. Émilienne MINDZEME ONDOA, was violently assaulted and taken, in front of witnesses, by Mr. NDOUMOU, Lawyer for Mr. AMOUGOU BELINGA . This intolerable aggression, on law practitioners, will obviously give rise to an ethical report that will be addressed to the Cameroon Bar Association and filing of a criminal complaint with the competent Public Prosecutor”. Assured the defense team leader Bar Calvin JOB.

Bar. Félicité Esther ZEIFMAN, Bar. Hakim CHERGUI, Bar. Emilienne MEDZEME and Bar Calvin JOB constituting the defense counsel of Martinez Zogo’s family in the press release of April 27 underlined that such actions are caused about by frustration.

“Exceptional as they are, we would be wrong not to understand their significance: these facts are clear signs of a beleaguered defense which, when faced with the strict application of the law and the damning charges against its client, begins by compromising herself by blithely violating the professional secrets and instructions that she has sworn to respect and ends up bogged down in a dishonorable radical comportment. Let the supporters of this violence know that the lawyers and the millions of supporters of the family of the martyr Martinez ZOGO will not allow themselves to be intimidated by any corruptor or any powerful, and will contribute with all their energies to the work of truth that the Justice of our country is accomplishing”. Added the Martinez Zogo defense counsel.

It should be noted, this other refusal by the Centre Court of Appeal to favour Amougou’s lawyers for their their client to be released on bail, implies the Vision 4 Tv boss remains in pre-trial detention in the Principal prison in Kondengui Yaounde.