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FRENCH lawyers tried to convince the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today that it has no jurisdiction in a corruption case already completed in France.
Equatorial Guinea Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue was convicted by a Paris court in October of embezzling public money worth millions of pounds, handing him a three-year suspended prison sentence and a €30 million (£26.50m) suspended fine.
Mr Obiang Mangue, who did not attend the trial, denied the charges and defence lawyer Emmanuel Marsigny accused France of meddling in Equatorial Guinea’s domestic affairs.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
