III. SUMMARY OF PROCEDURE BEFORE THE COURT 14. The Application was received at the Registry on 24 August 2018 and served on the Respondent State on 21 September 2018. The Respondent State filed its response on 10 December 2018. 15. The Parties filed their submissions within the stipulated timelines. 16. Pleadings were closed on 7 June 2019 and the Parties were duly notified. IV. PRAYERS OF THE PARTIES 17. The Applicants request the Court to: i. Declare the Application admissible; ii. Find that the Application is well-founded; iii. Find that the Respondent State violated the right to equal treatment of persons in the same situation; iv. Find that the Respondent State violated their right to non-discrimination by regularizing the status of certain police officers while leaving the others to fend for themselves, which occasioned a denial of justice; v. Find that the Respondent State is responsible for these violations; vi. Declare that, by these decisions, the Respondent State violated the Applicants’ procedural rights; and vii. Order the Respondent State to pay each of the Applicants the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Million (250,000,000) Francs CFA as reparation. 18. The Respondent State on its part prays the Court to: i. Rule on the admissibility of the Application as it deems appropriate; ii. Dismiss the Application as unfounded; and iii. Order the Applicants to bear costs. 5