Cabo Delgado attacks: First trial session held in three different locations, questioning starts Monday

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Cabo Delgado attacks: First trial session held in three different locations, questioning starts Monday

1:41 CAT | 05 Oct 2018

Court held sessions in Mieze penitentiary in ;etuge district ( picture in a file screen grab, TIM), in Pemba Women's Prison and the Maximum Security Jail.

The trial in the case of the armed attacks in Cabo Delgado began this Wednesday in Pemba. In the first session, which took place in three different locations, 106 of the 189 defendants accused of various crimes were present.

The session began at the Mieze Penitentiary in the Metuge district where, under heavy security measures, 13 detained defendants and 16 under conditional release heard the prosecution’s charges for the first time. Over the course of about an hour, the defendants heard the crimes they are charged with and the penalties requested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

After Mieze, the court went to the Pemba Women’s Prison, where 15 detained women, some with their children on their backs, and two others on bail learned that the Public Prosecutor’s Office had found no mitigating circumstance for crimes committed.

The first session of the trial ended in the Maximum Security Jail, where, addressing all 58 men detained there, the judge in the case set the beginning of the judicial interrogations for next Monday, October 8.

According to case 32/2018 of the Judicial Court of the Province of Cabo Delgado, since the attacks began on the early hours of 5 October last year, the defendants, including 29 Tanzanians and three Somalis, had murdered civilians and soldiers, stolen 37 AK-47 weapons and more than five thousand rounds of ammunition, destroyed belongings and challenged the power of the state.

Source: O País