The chains continue to fall more and more on the people of Guinea, who are graciful of their most basic rights, including freedom of expression. Words are not strong enough to express the dismay felt today in the city.

Because of this lead screed, which thus brings to the foot of the populations who had sinned by angelism, by erecting an altar to Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, a broumper of Alpha Condé. These liberticidal manoeuvres, peculiar to the regimes of terror, are set to be a violent return of cranks for Guineans. Given all the miseries they are made today by the power of the “white knight.”

Among other things, the impossibility of accessing the Internet without the famous virtual private network (VPN), the jamming of the ultrasound of the audiovisual press, namely FIM-FM, Espace-FM and Djoma FM. The latter press group was also removed from the channel bouquet, by order of the High Authority of Communication (HAC). An institution to which I was not praising, and which would be becoming in the eyes of some observers, the secular arm of the junta, to put the media in step.

Last but not least, the tax authorities would also be thrown at the press kits, to give him the coup de grâce. The ultimate goal of this absurd approach is to silence discordant voices. To give way only to one-way information. As in the time of the Pravda de Stalin.

Not long ago, no one would have thought that the junta would cross the Rubicon, even depriving citizens of the Internet. This tool par excellence, which has become indispensable in our daily lives. To be sure, a power can sometimes afford to curtail freedoms, in the name of the security argument. But is there peril in the home of Guinea, so that we can mound the fundamental rights of the people to this point? I believe that there is better for that power.

In the face of this odd, those who had believed in the good faith of the junta, to go off the beaten track, and to make Guinea a haven of peace, still do not return. To say that they have it across the throat would be a lapalissade.

It would, however, be early for her to shout victory. Although in her crusade, she only made the coalition of life forces and civil society with one bite. Having benefited at the time from favourable economic conditions, linked to the context of international instability and the call of air from ingenuous public opinion.

But the game is changing. And the country’s new masters no longer seem to print. As if they had lost their beauty.

Hence the difficulties they might have in blowing up the last lock in the private media. A key link of counter-power, in a country where political parties and intermediary bodies are now reduced to their congrinding portion.

Conakry’s power has just attacked a bone. And the damage in terms of image is already being felt in an increasingly stunned and very in-phase opinion with the press.

Hubert Beuve-Méry, founder of the newspaper Le Monde, said that “the journalist is contact and distance”. An assertion that the junta should include in its media relations. Because it would be shooting each other in the shoes, to want to set up a censor of the press and social networks, in these times. Instead, it should be accommodated and ensuring that the media do not abuse it.

It would therefore be wise for the princes who govern us, to bend the garbone, simply giving up this policy of Russian roulette. Otherwise, the transition would simply boast of throwing the baby out with the bath water.