Mozambique: Public prosecutor extends deadline in murder investigation of Nampula mayor

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Mozambique: Public prosecutor extends deadline in murder investigation of Nampula mayor

1:31 CAT | 28 Sep 2018

Mahamudo Amurane

The Mozambican public prosecutor’s office has decided to extend the investigation deadline in the murder one year ago of the mayor of Nampula, the country’s third-largest city.

“Due to the complexity of the case, it was necessary to the deadlines for the probatory proceedings has been extended,” a spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Office in Nampula told Mozambique Television.

Mahamudo Amurane was murdered on October 4, 2017, on the ground floor of his house in Nampula, northern Mozambique, by a man who approached him during the day, fired in the presence of witnesses and fled.

Police said on the same day they had “clear indications given by eyewitnesses that the shooting was carried out by an individual with duly described characteristics”, evidence which “could lead to the suspect’s arrest”.

A month later, Justice Minister Isac Chande announced that six people had already been indicted in the case, but today the PGR spokeswoman said that “the preparatory investigation process continues under judicial secrecy”.

“We are working with indications of suspects and the process remains under judicial secrecy,” she concluded.

The case relaunched the debate over the successive unsolved murders of public figures in Mozambique. Borges Nhamire and Baltazar Faela, commentators interviewed at the time by Lusa, said that the apparent impunity of these assailants gave the impression that crime had captured the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens.

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Source: Lusa