Translated from French by an automated online translation service, so please excuse the roughness. See link for original. Thank you to Anne Dillon for volunteering time to finding these French articles and doing the online translating.
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The legal assistant Space Tridom Interzone Congo, supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-ETIC), Cornelius Moukson Kutia, reported on November 4, Dispatches to Brazzaville, translating the Tribunal de Grande Instance Ouesso from the Hugues Dila case, a wildlife alleged offender.
The arrest of this issue in court is the work of the monitoring and anti-poaching (USLAB) Unit operating in the forest concession Tala-Tala-Jua-Ikié located in the space Tridom Interzone Congo (ETIC). The poacher was claimed by the court following the detention of four ivory tusks. Of different sizes, these four tusks are between 50 and 98 centimeters in length, with weight oscillating between 2.5 and 5 kg. This explains why these ivory spikes were only removed from two elephants.
According to the statement of offense in Minutes on wildlife and protected areas, Hugues Dila has already been sentenced to two years imprisonment. Another source close to the WWF-ETIC, reports that the wildlife offender is renowned in the department of Sangha. Besides this inquiry, which dates from October 14, 2015, the same source said that this “ivory baron” also shot down an elephant with a weapon. He remained unpunished.
A year earlier, on 22 September 2012 in 8:17 minutes, the same poacher was arrested in the former camp Kokoua Odzala National Park (OKNP) Mielekouka village in the department of Sangha. Reason: slaughter of an elephant in the savannah Moadjé. Following this act, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment. Alas! he had managed to escape.
Finally on 2 April, 2010, the poacher Hugues Dila, alias Loufombo, was arrested at PK 17 by departments authorized in detention for meat from a fully protected species. “We welcome the efforts made ??by the monitoring and anti-poaching Unit and hope the judge creates a jurisprudence wildlife in this case to the Court of Ouesso by law enforcement as he knows it well. Thus, the acts perpetrated by Dila Hugues and his band will be punished and serve as an example to other poachers,” said Corneille Moukson Kutia.
The species, elephant, is fully protected by the law 37/2008 of 28 November on wildlife and protected by Articles 112 and 113. The alleged poacher Hugues Dila, faces a maximum sentence of five years and heavy fines estimated to be several million CFA francs.
Fortuné Ibara
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