{"id":9998,"date":"2022-08-26T19:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/madagascar\/politique\/coup-detat-in-madagascar-conviction-confirmed-for-2-frenchmen"},"modified":"2022-08-26T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:44:07","slug":"coup-detat-in-madagascar-conviction-confirmed-for-2-frenchmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/madagascar\/politique\/coup-detat-in-madagascar-conviction-confirmed-for-2-frenchmen","title":{"rendered":"Coup d’\u00e9tat in Madagascar: conviction confirmed for 2 Frenchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Madagascar. <\/strong><\/span>The two Frenchmen were convicted of trying to assassinate Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina: their request to have their sentences of 10 and 20 years of hard labour overturned on Friday by Madagascar’s Court of Cassation.<\/p>\n

The court \u00ab\u00a0rejects the appeals,\u00a0\u00bb the president said laconically during an expedited hearing. Paul Rafanoharana, a Franco-Malagasy former adviser to the head of state, and Philippe Fran\u00e7ois, an ex-colonel of the French army converted to business, were arrested in July 2021.<\/p>\n

They were found guilty, after an eight-day trial in December, of having set up an operation codenamed \u00ab\u00a0Apollo 21\u00a0\u00bb targeting Andry Rajoelina.<\/p>\n

Paul Rafanoharana is considered the mastermind of the plot. He admitted during the trial to the existence of a letter in which he demanded a large sum of money to \u00ab\u00a0guarantee the overthrow of the regime in place\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Philippe Fran\u00e7ois is accused of having acted as an accomplice by concealing the illegal activities of the Apollo 21 project through a front company.<\/p>\n

They were respectively sentenced to 20 years and 10 years in prison with hard labour for attempted coup d’\u00e9tat and attempted assassination of the head of state.<\/p>\n

After the rejection of their appeal, their lawyers told AFP they were studying the possibility of extraditing their clients to France. \u00ab\u00a0But that would require recognising the Malagasy sentence and therefore recognising that there was indeed an attempted coup d’\u00e9tat,\u00a0\u00bb explained one of them. In total, 20 people have been implicated in this case.<\/p>\n

Pour plus d’informations et d’analyses sur la Madagascar<\/a>, suivez Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Madagascar. The two Frenchmen were convicted of trying to assassinate Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina: their request to have their sentences of 10 and 20 years of hard labour overturned on Friday by Madagascar’s Court of Cassation. The court \u00ab\u00a0rejects the appeals,\u00a0\u00bb the president said laconically during an expedited hearing. 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