Germain Katanga

Quick Facts

Full Name	Germain Katanga
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1978(1978-04-28)
Age	46
Birthplace	Mambasa
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Birth City	Ituri Province
Horoscope	Aries

Germain Katanga Biography

Germain Katanga is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 28, 1978 in Mambasa, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Katanga was born on April 28th, 1978, in Mambasa, Orientale Province, located in north-east Zaire (the present-day DRC). The family believes that he is from the Ngiti ethnicity. The couple is Denise Katanga and has two children.

He was detained by Congolese authorities in the early months of March 2005 in connection to the murder of 9 United Nations peacekeepers in Ituri on February 25, 2005. He was not charged before his deportation to ICC in October of 2007. The 1st of November, 2005 the United Nations Security Council committee issued a travel ban and the freezing of assets on Katanga in violation of an embargo on arms.

On 2 July 2007, a Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC found that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Katanga bore individual criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Bogoro attack, and issued a sealed warrant for his arrest. He was charged with six counts of war crimes (willful killing; inhuman treatment or cruel treatment; using children under the age of fifteen years to participate actively in hostilities; sexual slavery; intentionally directing attacks against civilians; and pillaging) and three counts of crimes against humanity (murder, inhumane acts and sexual slavery).

In February 2008, another suspect, Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, was surrendered to the ICC to face charges in relation to the Bogoro attack; he and Katanga will be tried jointly. The hearing to confirm the charges against them began on 27 June 2008. and ended on 11 July 2008. On 26 September 2008, Pre-Trial Chamber I confirmed some of the charges against Katanga and Ngudjolo and committed them for trial before a Trial Chamber of the Court.

On the 11th of December in 2004 Katanga was among six former militia chiefs appointed as generals of the Congolese army (FARDC) in the context of a peace agreement. He was given the grade as brigadier general. Katanga became the the leader in the FRPI by Cobra Matata.

Germain Katanga Net Worth

Germain Katanga is one of the richest Politician from Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Germain Katanga 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Germain Katanga (French pronunciation: Zerme kataga born: 28 April 1978) Also called Simba (pronounced [seba”seba” ) was an ex-leader of the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri (FRPI) which is an militant group based that is located in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On October 17, 2007 the Congolese authorities handed him over before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face trial on six charges of war crime as well as three charges of human rights violations. The charges are murder sexual slavery, rape, murder destruction of property pillaging, murder with intent and directing violence against civilians, just to mention just a few.

In the early part of 2003, he became the top commander of the FRPI an organization of militia that was involved in the war in Ituri. On the 24th of February, 2003 Katanga was alleged to have led an assault on the town of Bogoro where rebels in his command were to the “indiscriminate killing spree”, murdering at least 200 civilians, locking the survivors inside a room stuffed with corpses, as well as sexually enslaving girls and women. It is also claimed that Katanga participated in the commission of other crimes, such as the killing of more than 1,200 people during an attack on Nyakunde Hospital in September 2002.

On 17 October 2007, the Congolese authorities surrendered him to the ICC and he was flown to the ICC’s detention centre in The Hague. Katanga was the second person surrendered to the ICC since its establishment in 2002.

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The Katanga trial verdict produced mixed reactions. Some human rights activists in the DRC expressed satisfaction with the verdict as bringing a measure of closure to the victims and their families, with one activist quoted as saying: “For those who lost their possessions, their mothers, their homes, this judgment provides some relief. Today people here see some satisfaction. In the end, everyone must answer for his actions.” A lawyer for the victims in the case stated: “In their heart, many victims want to believe that, somehow, this judgment will contribute to peace and reconciliation”. Some women’s groups criticized the ICC for acquitting Katanga of rape and sexual slavery charges, claiming that the court appeared to demand higher level of proof for the sexual crimes than for other crimes. Phil Clark, a London-based expert on the ICC, criticized the ICC prosecutors for not devoting sufficient resources to the case: “The ICC has been doing its investigations on the cheap. It’s been using a really small group of investigators who haven’t spent an enormous amount of time in Congo. The prosecution has cut corners, they’ve used local Congolese intermediaries to do a lot of their dirty work. And as a result of that these cases haven’t been systematically built.”

Facts & Trivia

Germain Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Germain Katanga celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.

Where is Germain Katanga now?

Detained since 2005 in the DRC, transferred to The Hague in October 2007 and sent back to his country in December 2015 to serve the remainder of his sentence, Katanga was due to be released from prison in January 2016 , thanks to a reduction in sentence granted by the ICC for good conduct and regrets expressed towards …

What did Germain Katanga do?

On 24 February 2003, Katanga allegedly led an attack on the village of Bogoro in which rebels under his command went on an “indiscriminate killing spree”, killing at least 200 civilians, imprisoning survivors in a room filled with corpses, and sexually enslaving women and girls.

Who is the richest Congolese?

Katumbi is one of the wealthiest people in the DRC. He has been the subject of two documentaries by director Thierry Michel: Katanga Business (2009) and The Irresistible Rise of Moïse Katumbi (2014).

Is Katanga still part of Congo?

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015 , when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Haut-Katanga provinces.

What happened Katanga Mining?

On June 4, 2020, Katanga Mining Limited (TSX:KAT) became a 100% Glencore group owned company and ceased to be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. On June 22nd, 2020, following Ontario Securities Commission’s order, the Company ceased to be a reporting issuer.