“With the votes, you are sentenced to life imprisonment.” In France life imprisonment is 30 years, the maximum sentence under French law. Sierra Leonean Gibril Massaquoi was acquitted of charges he committed war crimes in Liberia by a Finnish court last year. During the trial a French investigator revealed that a second Liberian is under investigation. The US does not have universal jurisdiction laws under which Liberian war criminals could be charged as that have been in Europe. Outside the court, Kamara Fasow, president of the Liberian Mandingo Association in France said the community was disappointed by the verdict.
