 Relations between France and Djibouti were strained over the Borrel affair |
A French court has overturned jail sentences handed out in absentia to two Djibouti officials convicted of halting a probe into a French judge's death.
The court also ordered the cancellation of international arrest warrants for public prosecutor Djama Souleiman and the secret service chief, Hassan Said. Judge Bernard Borrel's corpse was found in 1995 in Djibouti and local officials initially said he had killed himself.
But his widow said he was murdered on the orders of high-ranking officials.
At the time of his death, Borrel was acting as a consultant to the Djibouti justice ministry and reportedly investigating arms smuggling.
Mr Souleiman and Mr Said were both accused of having put pressure on key witnesses in the Borrel case with the aim of discrediting testimony that potentially linked Djibouti's President, Ismael Omar Guelleh, to the death. He has denied any involvement.
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