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In the French judicial system the jury needed to have an innate belief in Mr Kamara’s guilt to convict. A simple majority of jurors – seven of the 12 – needed to find him guilty for conviction. Soon afterwards he was handcuffed and led back into the holding area of the court complex to resume his sentence.
Civitas Maxima, the Swiss justice activists, which were also a civil party in this case, filed the criminal complaint in July 2018 that started the proceedings inThis was a historic case for both France and Liberia. For France, the Kamara case was the first universal jurisdiction trial not linked to the Rwandan genocide, and with the defendant present. It was only the fifth trial of this type to take place in France.
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