[7] RWB went on to uncover evidence that the original report by a Commission of Enquiry into the murder had been "toned down on the insistence of two of its members, who represented the government".
The two members had refused to sign the report until it removed passages that implicated François Compaoré and businessman Oumarou Kanazoé [fr].
[9][10] By 2012, François Compaoré was "considered the new CDP strongman",[11] and speculation centered on the possibility that he could succeed his brother at the time of the 2015 presidential election.
The new government of Burkina Faso reopened the inquiry into François Compaoré's role in the 1998 murder of Zongo and went on to issue an arrest warrant.
[16] Subsequently, in the aftermath of the 2022 coup, on December 13, 2023, France made the 2020 ministerial decree authorizing the extradition obsolete.