Mozambique: 584 inmates who escaped from Maputo prisons have been recaptured - AIM
Mozambique: Over 200 detained for breaking curfew – AIM
6:34 CAT | 08 Feb 2021
The Mozambican police on Monday announced the detention over the weekend of 94 people in Maputo city and 140 in Maputo province for violating the curfew introduced on Friday.
The curfew runs for 21.00 to 04.00 for at least 30 days and covers the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area – Maputo, the adjoining city of Matola, and Boane and Marracuene districts.
Most of the detentions were of young people drinking alcohol on the public highway. The great majority were soon released from police custody, but at least 11 cases were forwarded to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
However, the most serious incident reported over the weekend had nothing to do with the curfew or any other of the government’s measures introduced to curb the spread of the Covid-19 respiratory disease. On Saturday night, a crowd attacked a police station in the 3rd February administrative post, in Manhica district, Maputo province.
They wanted to seize a man held in the police station, accused of murder, and to lynch him. The police resisted, and drove the crowd back, but not before they had destroyed several vehicles in the police compound.
The police say they have identified ten ringleaders in this attack.
Source: AIM
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