{"id":18502,"date":"2022-07-04T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:10:10","slug":"first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial","title":{"rendered":"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in front of his face until the cameras lined up to take his picture had departed. He then sat forward facing the five judges, apparently never turning to look at Baba Hydara sitting three meters to his right, the joint plaintiff in the prosecution and the son of the outspoken newspaper editor Deyda Hydara, in whose murder Bai is accused of taking part.<\/p>\n<p>During the first week of the trial against Bai L. in Celle (April 25 and 26, 2022), Mr. Dettmer, a police investigator in charge of the case, described how the authorities were first tipped off about Bai L. case in 2014, when the FBI who had heard him as a witness in an investigation of their own drew the attention of the German Federal Criminal Police Office to him.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, they were once again alerted, this time by the Swiss authorities who were building a case against Jammeh\u2019s former interior minister Ousman Sonko, and who had translated Bai L.\u2019s 2013 two interviews with Pa Nderry Mbai from the Freedom Radio and with Fatu Camara from the Fatu Network.<\/p>\n<p>During those interviews, Bai L. described his participation in the crimes he is currently being tried for, as well as in the killing of the 59 West African migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The police then had a look at Bai L.\u2019s 2013 application for asylum in Germany in which he mentioned criminal activities in which he was involved. It was after reading all the interviews that the police upgraded its \u201cobservation\u201d of Bai L. to a formal \u201cinvestigation\u201d against him, and the case began in earnest.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator said that he found more evidence against Bai L. using the testimonies presented at the TRRC hearings, using the Digests published by ANEKED and The Point Newspaper as a guide to the hearings.<\/p>\n<p>The investigators also found evidence through the search of Bai L.\u2019s house, that allowed for accessing his phone, and tens of thousands of photos, videos and messages, which showed that he was in contact with other Junglers.<\/p>\n<p>The search of Bai L.\u2019s phone also revealed that he was considering to testify at the TRRC in 2019 and 2021, as he was in direct contact with an officer from the TRRC. Indeed, a filled in witness form was found in his phone. The investigation also revealed that Bai L. last visited The Gambia in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The trial monitoring project is carried out in cooperation with Human Rights Watch, TRIAL International, the International Commission of Jurists. Trial notes and other information are provided by students of the Georg-August-University of G\u00f6ttingen, supervised and coordinated by Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Kai Ambos and his team at the Department of Foreign and International Criminal Law, as well as the G\u00f6ttingen chapter of the European Law Students\u2019 Association (ELSA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in front of his face until the cameras lined up to take his picture had departed. He then sat forward facing the five judges, apparently never turning to look at Baba Hydara sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[2355,2361,260,288,6625],"class_list":["post-18502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia","tag-germany","tag-trial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-04T13:43:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-04T14:10:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"656\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"492\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-04T13:43:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-04T14:10:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial\"},\"wordCount\":505,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\",\"Germany\",\"Trial\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial\",\"name\":\"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-04T13:43:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-04T14:10:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg\",\"width\":656,\"height\":492,\"caption\":\"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial - Gambia","description":"The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial","og_description":"The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-07-04T13:43:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-07-04T14:10:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":656,"height":492,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial","datePublished":"2022-07-04T13:43:03+00:00","dateModified":"2022-07-04T14:10:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial"},"wordCount":505,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Gambia","Gambia","Germany","Trial"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","miscellaneous"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial","name":"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg","datePublished":"2022-07-04T13:43:03+00:00","dateModified":"2022-07-04T14:10:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The defendant Bai L, 46, entered the courtroom in a black-hooded winter parka holding a folded green cardboard sheet in ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_16-62c2f4aaecd74.jpg","width":656,"height":492,"caption":"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/first-trial-of-a-former-jungler-in-germany-chronicle-of-the-bai-l-trial#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"First trial of a former Jungler in Germany \u2013 Chronicle of the Bai L. Trial"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}