In Cameroon, the supreme chief of Baloum and eight other individuals implicated in the double murder of young men in this locality in the West region have been indicted and remanded at the Dschang Central Prison.

New developments have emerged in the case of two young men burned alive in Baloum! On Thursday, June 25, the chief of Baloum and eight others pursued in this matter were formally charged and imprisoned at the Dschang Central Prison. According to the lawyer representing the family of Steve Diffo, the Baloum chief and his co-accused are being prosecuted for assassination, torture, complicity in assassination and torture, and lack of a national identity card. “No human being, even if sentenced to death by normative justice, should endure such a fate,” the lawyer declared.

At the heart of this affair are Bostel Kemta and his friend Steve Achille Diffo Sijamo. The two young men in their thirties were abducted, 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 a presumed role in this tragedy, the chief surrendered to authorities on Wednesday, June 17, 2026.

Two complaints were filed by the family. The first was submitted to the Penka-Miche gendarmerie brigade, the district capital to which the village of Baloum belongs, where the events took place. The second complaint was lodged with the public prosecutor. The prosecutor was reportedly surprised not to have been informed of such serious facts.