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Ex-head of Burkinabe Bar Association detained over 2015 coup attempt

Xinhua, April 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

The former head of Burkina Faso's Bar Association Me Mamadou Traore has been detained over ongoing investigations in the September 2015 failed coup, a judicial source told Xinhua on Wednesday.

"Traore was arrested and detained at the country's main prison for his involvement in the Sept. 16, 2015 failed coup," the judicial source said.

Sources said he faces charges of "threatening state security, complicity in a plot to threaten state security, causing injuries, complicity in causing injuries and assassinations."

On Sept. 16, 2015, soldiers from the ex-Presidential Security Regiment briefly overthrew the transition regime, before being defeated by protesters and regular army officers who had come from the interior of the country.

Resistance to the coup attempt led to the death of 15 people and left 200 others injured.

After the coup was quelled, several people suspected of involvement were arrested.

They included the mastermind Gen. Gilbert Diendere and Djibrill Bassole as well as several military officers and civilians who worked closely with the deposed president Blaise Compaore. Endit