sentences:  In January 2000, and a few weeks after police conclusions, a former officer of the presidential guard, Mohammed Saleh Aloumekani, accused the current Djibouti president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, as responsible for the murder; Aloumekhani witnessed a conversation on October 19, (the day the French judge was found dead) in the gardens of the presidential Palace between Ismael Omar Guelleh then chief of security with 5 other men regarding "the elimination of the prying judge".However, his account came very late after he arrived in Belgium as a political exile and deserter of the Djiboutian army.He first asked asylum in France in August 1998 which was denied, and by extension, Belgium took the same stand.