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Three Americans were transferred to the United States after their death sentences about a deadly coup in aluminum was commissioned from life imprisonment last week by the Congolese authorities, following interviews with representatives of the United States government.
The Americans, Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson Jr. and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun were among the 37 persons sentenced to death by a military court of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in September for having participated in the failed coup by Malanga’s father, Christian.
At least six people, including Christian Malanga, an opposition politician was killed in a firearm battle with The presidential guards as putschists sought to overthrow the government last May.
“They will serve their sorrows for life in the United States,” the presidential spokesperson Tina Salama told CNN, adding that the three Americans were transported by plane in the United States on Tuesday.
She previously declared that Clémence’s decision had been filed by the prosecutor and recommended by the Minister of Judiance of the DRC.
The Presidency of the DRC said in a statement on Tuesday that the repatriation of the Americans in the United States was “part of a dynamic effort to strengthen judicial diplomacy and international cooperation in matters of justice and human rights between the two countries”.
The repatriation seems to soften the field for a mineral partnership for security between the United States and the DRC while the war rages in the eastern region rich in the country’s resources between government forces and a rebellious group.
Last week, the president of the DRC, Felix Tshisekedi, had interviews with the American adviser for Africa Massad Boulos, and the deputy assistant state secretary for African affairs Corina Sanders in the capital Kinshasa.
These discussions “have given an agreement on two important objectives: a sustainable peace which affirms the territorial integrity of the strengthening of the DRC (and) economic links, including the investment of the private sector in the mining sector,” Salama wrote in an article on X on April 3.
