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Gilles Cistac: Daughter’s emotional outburst on father’s birthday
12:11 CAT | 15 Nov 2017
Picture: Carlos Serra (File photo) / Rosimele Cistac, photographed in a protest march in Maputo after the assassination of her father, Gilles Cistac
“My father tried to fix a country that can’t be fixed”
Rosimele Cistac, the daughter of Franco-Mozambican constitutional lawyer Gilles Cistac, has turned to social networks to pen an emotional message on the day when, if he were still alive, her father would have turned 56.
On Saturday, November 11, Rosimele Cistac published in Instagram message saying her father was murdered for saying what many did not have the courage to say, and for trying to fix a country that cannot be fixed.
“Today is my father’s birthday. Today my heart hurts because the only person in my life who has never rejected, judged, or treated me badly, was killed,” Rosimele Cistac wrote. “He was shot,” she continues. “Why? Because he tried to tell the world what many people were afraid to say. He tried to fix a country that cannot be fixed.”
“Today I’m crying on my own, because I can’t see his beautiful smile and hear his encouraging voice … I can scream how much I love him, but I can’t say it looking into his eyes.”
She ends her text with the words, “Today I feel like dying. Because the only person worth living for died in my arms.”
Gilles Cistac died in surgery at Maputo Central Hospital, a few metres from where he was shot in front of the “ABFC” Restaurant on Avenida Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo. HCM clinical director João Fumana reported at the time: “The bullets entered the chest and the abdominal wall.”
Before his assassination, Cistac was the victim of a campaign of vilification by individuals linked to the notorious G40.
A week before the attack, Cistac said he was going to sue an individual who, through Facebook and under the pseudonym “Calado Kalashnikov”, accused him of being a French spy who had obtained Mozambican nationality fraudulently.
Cistac said he was receiving threats from people who called themselves the Frelimo party and accused him of being Renamo’s legal adviser. In response, he filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office on the grounds that he was being the victim of political intolerance.
To date, nothing further has been established concerning Cistac’s executioners. The police, as always, “continue to pursue their investigations”.
By André Mulungo
Source: Canalmoz
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