Ex-war leader Germain Katanga is out of prison in Kinshasa Former Commander of the Militia of the Patriotic Resistance Forces in Ituri (FRPI), who reached an agreement with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), early March, brigade general, Germain Katanga, also former convicted of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is out of prison this Monday, March 2020, 16, in Kinshasa. Named Simba (the Lion, in Swahili), Germain Katanga did not want to communicate after his release have yet to be made clear. He had been recognized before the ICC guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for contributing, according to the judgement, to destroy the village of Bogoro in an attack that killed around 200 dead in 2003. The court sentenced him to 12 years in prison in March 2014. The Court ordered him to pay $ 12 million to the 297 victims of these crimes. On the other hand, Germain Katanga wished to contribute to the repair of his victims "by voluntarily making excuses". After serving his sentence on January 2016, 18 following the removal of his seven years of pre-trial detention, his sentence for good conduct and after the regrets expressed, Mr. Katanga being a general of brigade in the Loyalist army, had been kept in prison following the prosecutions of the army's general army. He was prosecuted by this prosecutor and before the High Military Court, for "war crime, crime against humanity and participation in a insurrectional movement".
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