Michel Thierry Atangana continues legal battle against Cameroon from France

Michel Thierry Atangana who was released last February 24, 2014 after serving 17 years in Cameroon prison, continue with his legal battle against the state of Cameroon while in France.

In 2012, the French court had ruled inadmissible the civil constitution of Michel Thierry Atangana in the context of a complaint filed in France for "false imprisonment", but in Paris on Thursday the Supreme Court finally overturned this decision.


Atangana welcomed the good news by the court. This judgment of the Supreme Court now allows the Cameroonian political ex-prisoner of a civil action and therefore the investigation of a complaint filed in 2012 by the Franco-Cameroonian for "arbitrary detention," while still in detention in Cameroon.

This approach was deemed inadmissible at first by the French justice. After 17 years in prison, ostensibly for a case of embezzlement, but for his family because of his political proximity with the former number two of the regime, Titus Edzoa, Michel Thierrry Atangana was finally released last February under pressure from UN and France on the Cameroonian presidency.


Free today and back in France, Atangana intends to continue with his lawyers procedures in France against the State of Cameroon.