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africa comics

Award for the best african comics

Africa e Mediterraneo award

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fumetto

Faustin Titi - drawings & Eyoum Ngangué - script (Côte d'Ivoire - Cameroun)

 

The policeman of Gnasville

Policeman Kankou thinks about his career before retirement.
His paycheck is small, so he is obliged to extort more money out of his couriers. Anyone who does not pay is put into prison. There are 50 people inside 3 cells, which are made to hold only 8. The bucket, used as a toilet, is cleaned once a week. Prisoners who protest are not given food or drink. Some of them are beaten for a long time for not confessing to their crimes; in the end, no one can resist for very long, and most prisoners die from choking. If there are women, they are constantly raped. This situation seems a violation of human rights, but in the end Kankou asks himself: “who is interested in the rights of the executioner?”

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