In Senegal, West African magistrates have for the first time been trained on Internet crime. The project aims to support States wishing to implement the International Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention). Cyber-security legislation already exists in some countries, but the great majority of these magistrates are confronted with the absence of national legislation.
This training is given by Senegalese magistrates like the former president of the court of Saint-Louis. "The connection is increasingly developed in Africa and at the same time there are vulnerabilities that arise, Digital identity theft, fraud, online scams, and this is common. "
When a cybercrime is brought to court, ordinary magistrates judge the case in the majority of countries targeted by the training. Laurent Poda, Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, a country where there are no cybersecurity texts, intends to share what he has learned with his colleagues in order to better fight Against cyber-terrorism. "Burkina Faso is currently being attacked in the north of the country. The terrorists are using the cyber channel, "he explains.
Cote d'Ivoire has a law on cybercrime. But Boubacar Ouattara, of the central administration linked the Ministry of Justice in Côte d'Ivoire, considers that the knowledge of the magistrates in this matter are still too limited. "I just discovered the" dark web ", he says, nothing but that is something we will share. The common law offenses, everything is found in cybercrime. "
What technical skills are needed to understand the issues, how to collect evidence on the Internet before they disappear? Questions regularly raised by the magistrates of West African countries.
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