The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday August 17 condemned Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, former head of the morality brigade of the terrorist movement Ançardine, to pay 2.7 million Euros or 1.77 billion francs CFA in repairs for participating in the destruction of the mausoleums during the terrorist occupation in 2012.
The amount is in the form of “individual, collective and symbolic reparations” for Timbuktu where Al Faqi had made allegiance to the terrorist groups that occupied all of northern Mali. And where many monuments and religious symbols have been desecrated and destroyed.
This fine can be paid in cash or in the form of compensatory measures that can benefit the inhabitants of Timbuktu.
Al Faqi was sentenced to nine years in prison last September by the ICC for ordering the destruction of the city’s UNESCO World Heritage symbols. He pleaded guilty and apologized to the entire historic city of Timbuktu.
Aboubacar Dicko