On 29 August, police stormed SYCAMU premises to arrest its president and force him to testify in a legal affair at the request of a prosecutor without written warrant.

As Mr. Dika refused to follow the officials who had no warrant for arrest, the police caused material damage and threatened to shoot the artists who intervened.

FIM is scandalised by these practices of intimidation targeting union leaders who are acting within the scope of a mandate from their members.

It has expressed its indignation directly to Cameroon’s President of the Republic and requested that full light be shed on these odious acts which seriously jeopardise union freedom, nonetheless protected by several international conventions ratified by Cameroon.