Prosecutors seek death penalty for 3 Americans implicated in alleged coup attempt in Congo

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Prosecutors seek ****** penalty for 3 Americans implicated in alleged coup attempt in Congo

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday called for 50 people, including three Americans, to face the ****** penalty for what the Congolese army says was

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Military prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Innocent Radjabu urged the judges to sentence to ****** all those on trial, except for one defendant who suffers from “psychological problems.”

The defendants, whose trial opened in June, face a number of charges, many punishable by ******, including terrorism, ******* and ********* association.

Six people were ******* during the

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led by the little-known opposition figure ********** Malanga in May that targeted the presidential palace and a close ally of President

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. Malanga was fatally shot for resisting arrest soon after live-streaming the ******* on his social media, the Congolese army said.

Malanga’s 21-year-old son Marcel Malanga, who is a U.S. citizen, and two other Americans are on trial for their alleged role in the *******. His mother, Brittney Sawyer, has said her son is innocent and simply followed his father, who considered himself president of a shadow government in exile.

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, 21, flew to ******* from Utah with the younger Malanga for what his family believed was a vacation, with all expenses paid by the elder Malanga. The young men had played high school football together in the Salt Lake City suburbs. Other teammates

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to join him on a “security job” in Congo.

Thompson’s family maintains he had no knowledge of the elder Malanga’s intentions, no plans for political activism and didn’t even plan to enter Congo. He and the Malangas were meant to travel only to South ******* and Eswatini, Thompson’s stepmother said.

Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, 36, is the third ********* on trial. He is reported to have known ********** Malanga through a gold mining company that was set up in Mozambique in 2022, according to an official journal published by Mozambique’s government, and a report by the ******* Intelligence newsletter.

Earlier this year, Congo

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, lifting a more than two-decade-old moratorium, as authorities struggle to curb ********* and militant attacks in the country.

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Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal.

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