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WATCH: Mozambican police fired tear gas, rubber bullets at protesters: “Illegal demonstrations” banned
3:13 CAT | 06 Oct 2017
According to Deutsche Welle, police yesterday used rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters in Nampula. Meanwhile, Mozambican police has said, also yesterday, they had banned “illegal demonstrations” over the killing of Nampula mayor Mahamudo Amurane on Wednesday.
“We have witnessed an attempted illegal march, with protesters burning tyres on the streets,” PRM spokesman Inácio Dina told a press conference in Maputo, “but this manifestation was cancelled by the police because it was illegal”.
Mahamudo Amurane, 44, was shot by a stranger in a pharmacy on the ground floor of his private residence in Nampula.
A report by private television channel STV yesterday showed dozens of people demonstrating near public buildings, with posters demanding justice after the death of the mayor.
Dina said that the problem was not the demonstration, but in the fact that the authorities had not been notified.
“We do not forbid people speaking out, but there are rules that must be observed,” he said, adding that police were still working on the case.
Source: Deutsche Welle / Lusa /Miramar
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