15.They affirmed that the ill treatments they received led to a deterioration in the health of Mr. Narcisse Dosseh Kpanou Azanleko, who, after Lome. a second visit to the SRI, was sent to the civilian prison of The facts, as narrated by the Republic of Togo 16. In relation to the facts as narrated by Hermes Da-Silveira, Kodzo Tunu Kpakpo, Kossi Dovi Tudzi, Komi Adjete Djifa Akakpo, Kodzo Zuzuwe Foly and Yaovi Mawulikplimi, the Republic of Togo pleaded that the Applicants are being investigated for attempted violation of internal State security and for complicity in attempted violation of the internal security of the Republic of Togo, relating to incidents which date back to 2005. 17. The Defendant State con ended that, from the information availed the , Trial Chamber I of the Court of First Instance of Lome, Mr. Da-Silveira approached a Togolese Catholic priest for financial assistance to overthrow the regime in place; that he recruited the other Applicants, who are military men in the Togolese Army, in addition to other youths, and trained them in the use of arms. 18. The Republic of Togo further claimed that the said priest who. was heard - - - by Trial Chamber I referred to above, acknowledged having given the sum of Ninety Seven Million CFA Franc(CFA 97,000,000) to Mr. Da1 Silveira, but denied giving his backing to any attempt to overthrow the regime. The priest stated that the money was meant for assisting Togolese refugees. 19. The Republic of Togo affirmed that the documents found at the home of the priest do attest to the hypothesis of a coup plot, and that when confronted on the issue, Mr. Da Silveira Hermes maintained his version, - according to which the incident in question was a case of mutiny. The Republic of Togo asserted that the Applicants Kpakpo, Akakpo, Tudzi, Folly and Ametepe were temporarily released on 12 March 2012 and that Mr. Da-Silveira, conscious of the seriousness of the case at hand, escaped from the detainee health unit at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (University Teaching Hospital) of Lome. 20. Vis-a-vis the .facts narrated by the Applicants Innocent Kakou Assima and Narcisse Dosseh Kpanou· Azanleko, the Republic of Togo averred 5

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