A man from Gambia who lives in Germany has been given a life sentence for being part of a group that killed people for the ex-president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh.
The man’s name is Bai L. Drove for the group called the “Junglers”. He was proven to have done very bad things, like killing and trying to kill people, and he was found guilty.
In 2019, during a Gambia investigation, three people accused Mr Jammeh of ordering many murders, including the 2013 killings of two US-Gambian businessmen and journalist Deyda Hydara.
Bai L committed a few crimes. The news agency AFP says that someone is being accused of helping to stop Hydara’s car before he was killed and then driving one of the attackers away.
After being president for 22 years, Mr. Jammeh didn’t want to give up being president when he lost the election in 2016. After other regions sent armies to make him leave, he decided to live in a different place.
According to Human Rights Watch, the trial could happen in Germany because it has the power to prosecute serious crimes no matter where they happened.
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