A serious assault targeted Massa Koné and his family at their home during the night of Thursday, June 18 to Friday, June 19, 2020.

Men armed with assault rifles burst in and threatened the relatives of the Secretary General of the Union of Local Struggles against Land Grabbing UACDDD, also spokesperson for the Malian Coalition against Land Grabbing (CMAT) and the West African Convergence of Struggles for Land, Water and Peasant Seeds (CGLTE OA). Massa Koné is a member of the committee for the revival of global exchanges following the Global Forum on Access to Land (GFAT) in which he participated in 2016.

Massa Koné was fortunately out of town. The intention of the attackers was clearly not to stick to a simple burglary but to find him.

CMAT held a press conference on Thursday, June 25 to call on the Malian authorities to find and condemn the perpetrators and take the necessary measures to ensure the protection of Massa Koné and his family.

It also launched a call for solidarity that we are relaying here.

To bring him a financial support :

• Bank transfer : 025172978501- 95 ML045 AFRIMLBA (account of the victims’ network UACDDD : www.uacdddd.org)
• Western Union : Massa Kone
• Orange Money : at +223 76 49 03 15
• Fund opened by the Peasant Confederation : check payable to the "Friends of the Peasant Confederation" (write the mention "for Massa Koné" on the back), to be sent to the following address : Amis de la Confédération paysanne - 104, rue Robespierre 93 170 BAGNOLET
  (In France, donations to the Peasant Confederation are deductible from income tax 2020 up to 66% of the amount paid, up to a limit of 20% of taxable income. We will send tax receipts during March 2021, before the declaration of 2020).

To contact the CMAT :
infoscmat@gmail.com
and
+223 76 19 61 11 – 6641 55 86 – 76 49 03 15

Pour contacter la CMAT :
infoscmat@gmail.com
et
+223 76 19 61 11 – 6641 55 86 – 76 49 03 15