Country
Territorial subdivision
Court
Type of court
Seat of court
Ouesso
Court jurisdiction
Date of opinion
2012
Abstract
In July 2011, Mengobouth Batantou Alain who had the objective to offer ivory tusks to the chief of his political party ”PJR”, provided Ndzoko Christophe with a PMAK war weapon and full loaders to kill elephants, and made sure the latter is accompanied by his father-in-law Gonock Ulrich whose mission was to monitor Ndzoko and eventually transport trophies and carcasses resulting from the hunting. The hunting was not fruitful and on their way back they came across rangers exercising their daily mission.
Language of document
French
Reference number
No. 001/2012
Charges
Hunting with a war weapon.
Species
Transnational
No
Decision
Mengobouth Batantou Alain, Ndzoko Christophe and Gonock Ulrich were declared guilty of hunting with a war weapon.
Appealed
No
Penalty
Mengobouth Batantou Alain, Ndzoko Christophe and Gonock Ulrich were sentenced to twelve months of imprisonment, XAF 1,200,000 (one million two hundred thousand) as fines each and to pay jointly XAF 3,000,000 (three million) as damages and XAF 200,000 (two hundred thousand) as court fees; The weapon used to commit the offence was confiscated; The Imprisonment in default of payment was fixed to one month for the recovery of court fees, one month for fines and three months for damages.
Legislation cited
Law No 37-2008 of 28 November 2008 on wildlife and protected areas