In Cameroon, the senior chief of Baloum and eight other individuals implicated in the double murder of young men in this locality in the West region have been charged and sent to Dschang central prison.
New developments in the case of two young men burned alive in Baloum! On Thursday, June 25, the chief of Baloum and eight other suspects were charged and imprisoned at Dschang central prison. The lawyer for Steve Diffo’s family stated that the chief and his co-accused are facing charges of murder, torture, complicity in murder and torture, and lack of national ID card. “No human being, even if sentenced to death by normative justice, should suffer such a fate,” the lawyer declared.
At the heart of this case are Bostel Kemta and his friend Steve Achille Diffo Sijamo. The two men in their thirties were seized, tortured, and burned alive on June 5 in Baloum, in Cameroon’s West region, by a group of local residents under the watch of village chief Charles Constant Pokam Noussi. Accused of playing a role in this tragedy, he surrendered to authorities on Wednesday, June 17, 2026.
Two complaints have been filed by the family. The first was lodged with the gendarmerie brigade of Penka-Michel, the district capital to which the village of Baloum belongs, where the events took place. The second complaint was submitted to the state prosecutor, who expressed surprise at not having been informed of such serious facts.
