Longue Longue regains freedom

Thanks Eto’o Fils and Cameroon government for their support during the
dark days
By Lauretta Esseme in Douala

Longue Longue

The author-composer and singer of “Ayo Africa” and “Kirikou”, Simon Longkana aka Longue Longue “le liberateur” has been released from priso in France. Longue was freed after he won his appeal against the 10-year imprisonment term that was slammed him by the Bordeaux High Court. The appeals judge declared Longue Longue not guilty and set him free on 16 December 2014.
    Longue Longue had served over 3 years in jail, after he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 2010, by the judge of the Bordeaux High Court.
    He was charged and found guilty of raping the 17-year-old niece of his former wife.
    On 19 November 2005 Longue Longue was arrested in Nantes, France and charged with raping a minor. He was later set free on 22 February 2006 upon the payment of 5.2 million fcfa caution. He was placed under judicial surveillance and barred from leaving France. The ban was lifted by the appeal court on 19 August 2008.

    But the case file was picked up again in 2010 and the Bordeaux High Court slammed Longue Longue a 10 years imprisonment term. Later, on 5 January 2011 Longue Longue was granted provisional liberty after Samuel Eto’o opted to pay the caution that was demanded by the court.
    Though he regained his complete freedom on 16 December 2014, Longue Longue only returned to Cameroon on Thursday 15 January 2015. He was welcomed at the Douala airport by a huge crowd of his fans.   
    Talking to the press at the airport, he said he has forgiven all those who made him to suffer innocently. He also thanked Eto’o and the Cameroon government for standing by him during his difficult period in the dungeon.