Julienne Mpemba: This prescription that satisfies

Julienne Mpemba and her lawyers will perhaps finally face the trial judge in a few months in the case of alleged "fraud in the adoption of Congolese children" charged to the Belgian-Congolese by the Belgian justice. So decided on February 16, the council chamber of Dinant. Nine other people, civil servants of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, cited in this file have benefited from a dismissal.

The prospect of appearing before the criminal court suits Julienne Mpemba and her lawyers, who are calm. The case dates back to 2015. Director of the "Tumaini" Orphanage, Julienne Mpemba is asking 8 Belgian couples who have adopted Congolese children to pay the arrears they owe to the Orphanage to ensure the work of childcare workers. and by extension, the good supervision of the 22 other children. While she was within her rights, the sky fell on the director of "Tumaini". Michel Lastchenko, head of the Belgian diplomatic mission in Kinshasa at the time of the events, joins the dance. The Belgian diplomat alerted the Congolese authorities, including the then Minister of Justice, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba. At the request of the Belgian Ambassador,

Quickly, we move from words to deeds. A team of 7 agents (four Congolese policemen and three elements of the security of the Belgian Embassy) will burst into her home, to her great surprise, provided with a warrant to bring doubled that of search. Léon Nema Lemba (Papa Molière), was at that time with Mrs. Mpemba, attended the scene which he also filmed. The investigators sent to Julienne Mpemba had been given the task of finding the children adopted by Belgian parents... The latter was surprised to find that the Belgian agents of the Belgian embassy could afford this in the DRC.

She will be arrested and imprisoned for two days at the Kinshasa-Gombe High Court prosecutor's office. It didn't stop there. She was ordered to hand over the children to the Ambassador in defiance of the work of an entire Congolese team. While the Belgian parents of these children still refused to reimburse the costs of the Orphanage. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation imposed on Ms. Mpemba a sum that did not cover the costs of the children at the orphanage and, moreover, the orphanage was also indebted.

Flashback

It should be recalled that in February 2012, a partnership agreement was concluded between the TUMAINI orphanage and two French-speaking Belgian associations, namely: Larisa and Sourire d'enfants, as well as their central community authorities and, later, in 2013, another trial agreement was concluded between the Flemish association Fiac and its community authority Kind en Gezin. The object of these agreements concerned exclusively the adoption of children from the Congolese orphanage by Belgian couples.

The terms of the partnership stipulated that the couples would bear various costs incurred on behalf of the children adopted within the orphanage. The charges were to cover, among other things, medical, health and food expenses, housing and all related costs, the assistance of childcare mothers on a permanent basis, the salaries of mothers, maintenance staff and administrative staff, etc. All these expenses were mutually agreed between the parties and calculated for a 6 month stay of the children at the orphanage. This was executed with no problem.

However, following the moratorium, the children were no longer housed at the orphanage for 6 months but for more than two years. Mrs. Julienne MPemba asked each Belgian couple to bear the costs of their child at the orphanage, this posed a problem for them.

In September 2013, the Congolese State took the decision to suspend the exit of adopted children from the national territory. The Orphanage then had 12 Congolese children legally adopted by Belgian couples, including 9 French-speaking couples and 3 Flemish couples. The measure once lifted, Julienne Mpemba will suddenly become the object of enormous pressure, emanating from Belgian circles, exerted with the aim of having the children travel without paying the bill for the orphanage...

In Belgium, Mr. Didier Reynders took the Congolese woman to court; it is believed to be mainly following the violent altercation she had with Ambassador Lastchenko at the Embassy in October 2015. This altercation in the Ambassador's office took place, following procrastination and especially to the "racist remarks" of this one, remarks that Ms. Mpemba, known to all for having a strong character, did not let pass. The windows of the ambassador's office shattered and the altercation continued in the corridors of the embassy.

On her return to Belgium, she was fired from her job as a lawyer for the Walloon government, arrested and remanded in custody. More than ten times the Chamber of the Council released her, as many times the federal prosecutor's office appealed to Liège whose Court of Appeal, according to sources, was directed for several years by Mrs Reynders, the big sister of the former Belgian foreign minister. This Court of Appeal automatically overturned all the decisions that freed Ms. Mpemba.

This explains that, it was Mr. Reynders, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, who denounced Ms. Mpemba to the former Minister of Justice who then ordered the federal prosecutor's office to prosecute Ms. Mpemba using his right of positive injunction.

Although in the judgment releasing her, it was written in the order that the arrest of Julienne Mpemba was contrary to human rights, nothing helped. The strategy of the federal prosecution, it is said, was to keep the Congolese in prison until the trial. No doubt to weaken her mentally.

Observers ask many questions. How Julienne Mpemba could steal children, photograph them, put them on the facebook page of the orphanage and above all put them up for adoption when in her orphanage there were and there are until today children from same sex and same age who were already there during the same period? Julienne Mpenda has stopped adopting children since 2015. The children of the Tumaini Orphanage are still there at the orphanage and are always well cared for and cared for without anyone asking for them.

In Kinshasa, the social workers who worked with Julienne Mpemba are surprised that she is accused of stealing children, she refused to take in new ones, explaining that she had reached the limit of 30 children and that 'we had to wait for those to travel before taking others. According to an international survey, the "Tumaini" orphanage was the best in Kinshasa. How could a woman who said that she had reached her capacity not to take the children taken away by the social workers but pay a thug to steal the children? We are waiting for the Belgian public prosecutor's office to prove its thesis when the time comes.

In a word, Julienne Mpemba is calm. A lawyer herself, graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, she has the reputation of being a "strong" woman The Congolese is defended in Belgium by Thibault Maudoux, a tenor of the Namur bar, specializing in research flaws in the records. This is an asset that will allow the defense for Ms. Mpemba to lay bare all the maneuvers sewn up from scratch by a judicial institution which wanted to be a model and which accuses Congolese justice of being corrupt because it classified for the first time the file, then reopened it further to pressure from Mr. Thambwe Mwamba when the Belgian investigators arrived in Kinshasa, the latter then ordered the Congolese justice system to open the file again,

In the DRC, Ms. Mpemba is defended by Me Georges Kapiamba.

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