Usually tense, relations between Belgium and the Félix Tshisekedi regime, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have deteriorated in recent days, due to the attack on the Belgian Embassy in Kinshasa , on January 28, but especially since the confirmation of the death penalty inflicted on a Belgian national, Jean-Jacques Wondo Omanyundu, a day earlier.
Brussels has indeed recalled his ambassador to Kinshasa for consultations and summoned the DRC ambassador to Belgium, to express his concern, after the High Congolese Military Court judged this military expert of Congolese origin, 56 years old , and considered, Monday, January 27, that he was the brain of an attempted coup d'etat fomented in May 2024 by a former soldier, Christian Malanga. Malanga had been chased and quickly killed by regular army soldiers.
Arrested a few days later and imprisoned in Kinshasa, Mr. Wondo, teacher at the Royal Military School of Brussels and criminologist at the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, was appointed as the main author of the conspiracy and accused, at the same time as thirty-seven other people, to be part of a criminal organization.
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Source: Lemonde