Canal de Moçambique newspaper broken into and set on fire – @Verdade

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Canal de Moçambique newspaper broken into and set on fire – @Verdade

9:40 CAT | 24 Aug 2020

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Unidentified individuals broke into and set fire to the offices of newspaper Canal de Moçambique in Maputo on Sunday night (23), in yet another attack on press freedom in our country, @Verdade reports.

@Verdade has learned that the criminal enterprise started in the afternoon with the forcing of the main access door into the three-storey building in Maputo’s Bairro Central where the weekly Canal de Moçambqiue and daily Canalmoz operate.

With access secured, the two doors to the ground-floor newsroom were broken into at around 8 p.m.: first the metal barred door and then the wooden door.

Inside, the criminals, of unknown number, doused the newsroom and administration office with fuel and, using explosive devices, set fire to the Canal de Moçambique and CanalMoz newspapers.

Computers, tables, chairs, desks, documents, among other objects belonging to workers were destroyed.

The fire, promptly quelled by the firefighters who rushed to the site, endangered the lives of seven families living in the building.

#Freedom of #Expression under attack in #Mozambique: Independent media house @Canal_Moz burned down by gangsters this evening in #Maputo. @DeproseM @SiphoMalunga @SAHRDNetwork @tsunga_arnold @AmnestySARO @TamukaKagoro77 @TitusGwemende @USAIDMozambique @Fromagehomme @CDD_Moz pic.twitter.com/UiJSaKIce1

— Prof. Adriano Nuvunga, Ph.D. (@adriano_nuvunga) August 23, 2020

Redacção do Jornal Canal de Moçambique @Canal_Moz arrombada e incendiada https://t.co/gf3YgWQ6M1 pic.twitter.com/KOSPu9vrY4

— Jornal a Verdade (@verdademz) August 24, 2020