Employee holds boss hostage and ends up in prison – Beira, Mozambique

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Employee holds boss hostage and ends up in prison – Beira, Mozambique

4:26 CAT | 18 Oct 2016

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Twenty-year-old Zacarias Luciano is currently being held in the cells of the 5th Precinct police station for allegedly having held hostage for four hours his 43-year-old Indian lady employer in the Rua Capitão Montanha, in Beira’s Maquinino neihbourhood.

Taking advantage of his position as a domestic worker, Luciano allegedly gagged the lady with his handkerchief and demanded an unspecified sum of money to set her free. Luciano confessed to the crime and said he had locked the doors in order to steal some money and five cellphones.

“I was thinking of how to steal money. Once the boss sent me to sweep the room and I saw a wad of notes, but I left it. In conversation with friends, I expressed concern that my bosses did not pay me enough. They told me I should steal so as to be able to travel back to my homeland (Maganja da Costa, in Zambezia), so I did. Unfortunately, the plan did not go well,” he said.

The victim said that, after being tied up, she managed to escape to the bathroom with a cell phone, where she immediately contacted the police and reported what was happening. The police responded quickly.

“I had all the keys and was hiding when I heard the firemen breaking down the door. I was arrested trying to escape through a window. I repent now, and now must face the authorities. But I swear that my intention was not to kill. I just wanted the money and mobile phones,” the miscreant said.

Sofala provincial PRM spokesman Daniel Macuácua said that the incident was a crime of theft in which the domestic worker tied up his employer in an attempt to steal money and five cell phones, which had been recovered.

Source: Diário de Moçambique