ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Former Dominica prime minister Edison James and former opposition chief Lennox Linton, have been dedicated to face trial on the Excessive Court docket, based on the state’s attorneys.
The state-owned DBS radio introduced Friday that the Trinidad-based attorneys prosecuting the case of incitement towards the politicians had additionally named the present chief of the principle opposition United Employees Celebration (UWP), Dr. Thompson Fontaine.
Edison James (File Photograph)
In February this yr, James, 80, had been launched on EC$50,000 (One EC greenback=US$0.37 cents) bail after spending an estimated 20 minutes in a holding cell in a Justice of the Peace’s courtroom after he had been dedicated to face trial within the Excessive Court docket on a cost of incitement.
James, who served as prime minister between 1995 and 2000, was on the middle of the alleged incitement case, together with Linton and Fontaine.
The police allege that on February 7, 2O17, at a public assembly entitled” D –DAY OF THE PEOPLE” in Roseau, they did unlawfully incite by encouraging and or persuading or instigating by phrases or deeds triggered individuals to come back out, collect in teams or act in such a way as would jeopardize public security and order and or endanger the general public peace and or trigger a tumultuous disturbance of the peace in Roseau. “
DBS mentioned that the assertion from the attorneys, led by Trinidad-based Senior Counsel Israel Khan, famous on that day that they incited folks to assemble within the public assembly after that to commit acts of riotous conduct and breach the general public peace. It mentioned stones and bottles had been thrown on the police, and enterprise locations had been broken.
DBS quoted the assertion as saying that the attorneys had indicated that there have been challenges prosecuting the case, such because the passage of Hurricane Maria and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, amongst others, however that they’ve reached a stage the place the matter is now dedicated to the Excessive courtroom.
Efforts to contact the three accused males’s attorneys have confirmed futile.
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