Lawyers representing victims and civil society groups filed complaints on 10 July 2026 both with Belgium's federal prosecutor and with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, alleging crimes against humanity carried out over six years by forces loyal to the Congolese presidential clan. The complaints cite eleven documented episodes, including hundreds of deaths and injuries during a 2024 riot at Makala prison in Kinshasa and multiple massacres in Lubumbashi, Kolwezi, and elsewhere in the Katanga region (a mineral-rich province in southern DRC), which lawyers say were used to suppress opposition to the looting of mining resources. Belgian and ICC prosecutors must now decide whether to open formal investigations; one of the lawyers involved argued that Congo's own judiciary has failed to act, fully meeting the threshold for ICC intervention under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.