Eyoum Case: 'Intervention of Hollande is justified'

Jean Yves Leconte, a French Senator established outside France, has just recalled in a statement that the intervention of the President of the French Republic on the matter of counsel Lydienne Yen Eyoum was "justified."

The visit of François Holland in Cameroon, recurred the case of Lydienne Yen Eyoum, French lawyer of Cameroonian origin, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Special Criminal Court (SCC), of an embezzlement of about 1 000 000 000 FCFA (1.5 million euros), he wrote.

The detention of the lawyer has been deemed illegal by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, recalled Jean Yves Leconte.

During his recent stay in Cameroon in July, the French president said that "all files had been put on the table between Paul Biya and him, including humanitarian issues like this". In response, on a possible pardon of the French lawyer, the number one Cameroonian pointed out that, "If the Constitution empowers him to do something, he would do so out of good will".

In his release, the Member of the law commission, and judge of the Court of justice of the Republic, "hoped that public declaration will permit Lydienne Yen Eyoum to quickly receive a response to her request for transfer in Douala, her home town, where her family has lived for many years."