{"id":38614,"date":"2025-07-31T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Proces-Mutamba-ou-les-manoeuvres-dilatoires-et-strategie-de-diversion-38614\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:07:22","slug":"Proces-Mutamba-ou-les-manoeuvres-dilatoires-et-strategie-de-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Proces-Mutamba-ou-les-manoeuvres-dilatoires-et-strategie-de-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Proc\u00e8s Mutamba ou les man\u0153uvres dilatoires et strat\u00e9gie de diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Au c\u0153ur de cette contestation : la r\u00e9gularit\u00e9 du vote parlementaire ayant conduit \u00e0 la lev\u00e9e de l\u2019immunit\u00e9 de leur client. Les conseils de Mutamba all\u00e8guent que le recours au vote \u00e0 main lev\u00e9e contreviendrait aux dispositions constitutionnelles, lui pr\u00e9f\u00e9rant le scrutin \u00e0 bulletins secrets. Cette interpr\u00e9tation, sans fondement juridique av\u00e9r\u00e9, a \u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e8chement \u00e9cart\u00e9e par la Cour de cassation, qui a refus\u00e9 d\u2019entrer dans un jeu de renvois institutionnels destin\u00e9, selon toute vraisemblance, \u00e0 paralyser la proc\u00e9dure par le biais de controverses artificielles. <\/p>\n<p>Le rejet net de ces objections a suscit\u00e9 une r\u00e9action outr\u00e9e de la d\u00e9fense, illustr\u00e9e par la v\u00e9h\u00e9mence de Me Jo\u00ebl Kitenge, dont les diatribes contre la juridiction saisie trahissent moins une indignation de principe qu\u2019un d\u00e9sarroi tactique face \u00e0 la solidit\u00e9 du dossier.<\/p>\n<p>Dans un registre tout aussi manifeste de diversion, la strat\u00e9gie de la d\u00e9fense s\u2019est r\u00e9cemment enrichie d\u2019un volet spectaculaire : l\u2019annonce de la volont\u00e9 de faire citer \u00e0 compara\u00eetre un ar\u00e9opage de personnalit\u00e9s politiques et administratives de premier plan, dont la Premi\u00e8re ministre Judith Suminwa, l\u2019ancienne garde des Sceaux Rose Mutombo, les ministres des Sports et des Travaux publics, ainsi que plusieurs hauts responsables techniques et financiers. <\/p>\n<p>Derri\u00e8re cette volont\u00e9 apparente de confrontation contradictoire se dessine en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 une man\u0153uvre politicienne visant \u00e0 d\u00e9placer le d\u00e9bat du champ strictement juridique vers l\u2019ar\u00e8ne de l\u2019opinion publique. En s\u2019attaquant ainsi au sommet de l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif, la d\u00e9fense tente d\u2019instiller dans les esprits l\u2019id\u00e9e d\u2019un proc\u00e8s \u00e0 caract\u00e8re politique, esp\u00e9rant ainsi infl\u00e9chir l\u2019appr\u00e9ciation m\u00e9diatique du dossier, \u00e0 d\u00e9faut de pouvoir en modifier le fond.<\/p>\n<p>Or, jusqu\u2019ici, cette strat\u00e9gie se heurte \u00e0 l\u2019imperm\u00e9abilit\u00e9 de la Cour, r\u00e9solue \u00e0 maintenir le cap d\u2019un proc\u00e8s rigoureux, d\u00e9barrass\u00e9 des aff\u00e9teries et des tentatives d\u2019intimidation rh\u00e9torique. L\u2019audience s\u2019annonce donc cruciale. Mais \u00e0 mesure que s\u2019\u00e9puise l\u2019arsenal proc\u00e9dural de la d\u00e9fense, il devient manifeste que l\u2019agitation p\u00e9riph\u00e9rique ne suffit plus \u00e0 masquer la faiblesse du fond. <\/p>\n<p>Constant Mutamba, enferm\u00e9 dans une posture victimaire et cherchant dans les hauteurs de l\u2019appareil d\u2019\u00c9tat les leviers d\u2019un retournement improbable, semble d\u00e9sormais davantage engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour sa propre r\u00e9habilitation m\u00e9diatique que dans une r\u00e9ponse frontale aux accusations qui\u00a0p\u00e8sent\u00a0sur\u00a0lui.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64094 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/png\/screenshot_174_.png\" alt=\"Le rejet des objections a provoqu\u00e9 l\u2019indignation de la d\u00e9fense, Me Jo\u00ebl Kitenge exprimant plus un d\u00e9sarroi tactique qu\u2019une r\u00e9elle indignation de principe\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c0 mesure que s\u2019avance le proc\u00e8s de l\u2019ancien ministre de la Justice, Constant Mutamba, ses avocats multiplient les offensives proc\u00e9durales dans ce qui appara\u00eet de plus en plus comme une tentative laborieuse d\u2019enrayer l\u2019in\u00e9luctable progression judiciaire. \u00c0 deux reprises d\u00e9j\u00e0, la d\u00e9fense a sollicit\u00e9 la suspension des audiences, invoquant une pr\u00e9tendue saisine pr\u00e9alable de la Cour constitutionnelle argument \u00e9rig\u00e9 en rempart de fortune face \u00e0 une machine judiciaire qu\u2019elle ne parvient ni \u00e0 enrayer ni \u00e0 d\u00e9cr\u00e9dibiliser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000064093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7544],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","tag-homenews","byline-tite-gatabazi"],"bylines":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"contributors":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"featured_image":{"id":4000064093,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-42.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-42.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-42.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-42.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-42.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cp-42.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000064093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38614"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38614"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}