Nathalie Koah case: Prosecutor wants Eto’o acquitted

The Prosecutor of the Administrative Court of First Instance of Yaounde in charge of the Nathalie Koah case has requested that the footballer should be considered not guilty.

The Nathalie Koah/Samuel Eto’o case might finally end in favor of the football celebrity.

This assumption is looming increasingly on the horizon while the verdict is due on December 31, 2015.

Le Jour newspaper reported on December 22, 2015, that “In his submissions, the prosecutor concluded that no such offense is characterized. In other words, that Samuel Eto’o should be found not guilty."

The offenses to which the newspaper referred to was in relation to the complaint of the former girlfriend of the footballer, Nathalie Koah. The stewardess at Camair-Co had filed a lawsuit against the former captain of the Indomitable Lions of making conditional threats, blackmail, obscene publications and influence peddling.

Eto’o perhaps considered not guilty, but his friend might be convicted. Le Jour informed that for E. M Christian, the co-accused of Samuel Eto’o, also his friend, “asked that he be found guilty of that offense. To maintain in the bonds of the charge, the representative of the prosecution relied on the forensic examination that was carried out on a soundtrack taken from Nathalie Koah’s phone.

In the report of the expert in cryptology, the voice of E.M Christian was authenticated. For prosecutors, contents of the record (these were decrypted by the expert) were from E.M Christian in conversation he had with Nathalie Koah, and constitutes sufficient evidence to establish the infringement of conditional threats.”

These requisitions are obviously far from meeting the defense who wants to condemn Eto’o. “In an argument, Mr. Abah Fouda, lawyer of Nathalie Koah, raised the fact that Samuel Eto’o Fils was acting via E.M Christian. The lawyer said that by asking for nude photos of Fally Ipupa from Nathalie Koah, E.M Christian said the ‘requirement’ ‘was from Samuel Eto’o, and he himself had already addressed it to Nathalie Koah."

According to Mr. Abbah, the lawyer of Nathalie Koah, “Samuel Eto’o is the intellectual author and EM Christian, the author's 'equipment'. It cannot, therefore, condemn one without the other."

Nathalie Koah had to, in turn, respond to some conditional offenses like threats, obscene publications, blackmail, defamation, breach of trust and theft. Again, the prosecutor believes that the accused is innocent.

“If for the first five charges, the prosecutor said that there was no sufficient prove (uncharacterized offense), that relating to theft, he issued a doubt,” reported Le Jour, which emphasized that for the attorney “We cannot say exactly that Nathalie Koah stole the watch she wears from Samuel Eto’o Fils. Similarly, we cannot certify that the Eto’o Fils offered it to her."