The former Cameroonian minister and candidate in the presidential election of October 12, 2025, made the announcement public on July 11. His action, he says, is part of the continuation of the referral to the French justice system and targets the Yaoundé regime.
On the basis of universal jurisdiction, Issa Tchiroma Bakary refers the matter to the Swiss justice system. The action brought concerns the massacres and other acts of repression perpetrated against Cameroonians who claimed the truth of the ballot boxes following the October 2025 presidential election.
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According to the initiator of the complaints, the referral to the justice systems in Switzerland, France, and the filing of complaints underway in other countries aims at one goal. That of fighting impunity and the violence committed against Cameroonians in the aftermath of the October 12, 2025 election. And this, in a context where, still according to him, the Yaoundé regime continues to deprive thousands of Cameroonians of their freedom under inhumane conditions. The goal is both to silence all those who carry the fight for claims and denunciation in Cameroon, like Jacques Bertrand Mang and Joseph Espoir Biyong.
In his complaints, Issa Tchiroma Bakary targets the perpetrators, accomplices, executors, and masterminds of these violences. His commitment is that they be prosecuted, hunted down, and judged wherever they might try to take refuge to escape their responsibilities. That they be punished on one hand. And on the other hand, that the victims obtain justice and full compensation for their damages.
To this end, the politician multiplies complaints and files them in countries that have signed international conventions related to the cases of violence mentioned above. These include in particular the New York Convention of December 10, 1984, against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and the New York Convention of December 20, 2006, against enforced disappearances.
While the politician, supported by a team of lawyers, is free to refer any justice he finds competent, he nevertheless raises questions about the implementation of judicial procedures against the legal or physical persons he targets.