Three charged over 95 cannabis portions in Yaoundé trial
Three men arrested with 95 portions of cannabis at Rue Foe in Yaoundé in 2017 were held in Kondengui prison and sent for trial before the Mfoundi High Court. Their trial opened on 7 June 2019, with one admitting use and pointing to a co-accused as the seller.
🇨🇲 Rue Foe, 5th arrondissement, Yaoundé · Cameroon
On 1 September 2017, on the Tabaski feast day, first-grade peace officer Belibi
Leonel came across a group of boys consuming narcotics at the place known as Rue
Foe in Yaounde’s 5th arrondissement.[1][2]Three young men found with 95 cannabis
portions intended for sale and personal use were held in Kondengui prison.[3][2]The three detainees were identified as Bertrand Zalabaye, Donaldson Bache and
Blaise Egoueyi.[1][2]
The accused were charged with cannabis trafficking and consumption and sent for
trial before the Mfoundi High Court, the Tribunal de Grande Instance.[1][2]Their
trial opened on 7 June 2019.[1][2]Zalabaye pleaded guilty to assault and
cannabis consumption but denied trafficking, saying he obtained his cannabis
from his co-accused Egoueyi, an account confirmed by Bache.[1][2]
All three admitted that they regularly met to consume drugs together.[1][2]Egoueyi admitted that he kept a stall at Rue Foe where he sold cannabis to
friends and potential customers.[1][2]
The Kalara account also lists assault, coups et blessures, among the offences with which the three were charged.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight was published for the 95 filons, so no kilograms can be recorded.
No verdict or sentence was reported; further hearings were still expected when the articles appeared.
The arrest occurred on 1 September 2017 and the trial opened on 7 June 2019; the incident date uses the latest step, the trial opening.
All three accounts attribute the details to the weekly Kalara edition of 11 June 2019, so they represent a single reporting chain.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in 237online.com: Some of those stopped fled, while the three accused resisted arrest and the encounter degenerated into an altercation.
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