Gabriel Messan Agbéyomé KODJO with an original letter with reference
091/2020/AN/SG/PA with same date as above (Exhibit #1).
15. According to the said letter, the Speaker of the National Assembly of
Togo informed the Applicant that the Federal Attorney of the Court of First
Instance of Lomé had submitted a requisition to her to have the Applicant’s
parliamentary immunity waived (Exhibit #2).
16. Indeed, by letter No. 1287/PR/2020 dated March 9, 2020, the Federal
Attorney of the Lomé Court of First Instance demanded the waiver of the
parliamentary immunity of the Applicant against whom there are, according
to him, serious suspicions of having committed criminal offenses (Exhibit
No. 3).
17. According to the Federal Attorney, the observations and actions referred
to in his requisition for waiver of parliamentary immunity “fall within the
provisions of the criminal provisions and are qualified as aggravated
disturbance of public order (Article 495 (3) of the new Criminal Code
(NCC)), dissemination of false news (Article 497 of the NCC), slanderous
accusation (Articles 363, 364, 693 and Article 693 (1) of the NCC) and
violation of the internal security of the state (Articles 663 and 664 of the
NCC)”.
18. On March 10, 2020, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Togo,
allegedly after hearing the Bureau of the National Assembly and the
Conference of Presidents, decided to establish a special committee,
responsible for investigating the lifting of the Applicant's parliamentary
immunity (Exhibit No. 4).
19. By act dated March 13, 2020, from Maître André T. SAMA BOTCHO,
Bailiff, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Togo notified the Honorable
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