Judges say organized crime in an attempt to capture the state – Mozambique

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Judges say organized crime in an attempt to capture the state – Mozambique

4:39 CAT | 09 Dec 2016

The president of the Mozambican Association of Judges (AMJ), Carlos Mondlane, said yesterday that organised crime had tried to capture the state in recent years by attacking magistrates defending the country’s justice system.

Mondlane was referring to the killing in Matola in April of Marcelino Vilanculos, a Mozambican prosecutor, and that of judge Carlos Silica in May 2014 in the heart of the Mozambican capital.

“The judiciary has been attacked through these murders, and organised crime has attempted to capture the state,” said Mondlane, quoted in an AMJ statement sent to the Lusa news agency. The last few years, the AMJ president continued, had been marked by increasing threats to the safety of the magistracy, leading them to demand greater protection for the administration of justice from the competent bodies.

“We have discussed this issue in depth, and the conclusions have been forwarded to the police and judicial institutions charged with taking care of the matter,” Mondlane explained.

Mondlane said that the AMJ had this year committed itself to strengthening relations of concord and collaboration with various legal and judicial agents.

Source: Lusa