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Renamo’s Soares contradicts police, says she pressed charges on alleged attempt on her life – Mozambique
6:21 CAT | 20 Sep 2016
In File Club of Mozambique / Renamo MP Ivone Soares
The head of the Renamo parliamentary bench, Ivone Soares, told Lusa on Friday that she has pressed charges regarding the alleged attempted murder on her with the Mozambican police, who said they had not received any complaints.
“I personally went to the police with other witnesses to press charges and, on Tuesday, I was in the Zambezia Provincial Attorney General’s Office where I made statements regarding the attack,” Soares said.
Police said on Thursday that they had not received any complaint about the alleged attempted murder of the head of parliamentary group of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the country’s main opposition party, and that no official investigation has been initiated.
“We have not received any complaint and, therefore, there is no ongoing investigation,” Ernesto Serrote, head of Public Affairs at the Provincial Command of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in Zambezia in the centre of the country told Lusa.
On Wednesday, Renamo claimed that, on September 8 [Thursday] in Quelimane, an attack was made on the life of Ivone Soares, head of its bench in parliament, accusing the regime of being behind the alleged attempted murder.
According to Renamo deputy Juliano Ricardo, a man on a motorcycle tried to open fire with an AK-47 type gun on the vehicle in which Soares and other Renamo members were traveling a few kilometres from Quelimane airport in central Mozambique, but the weapon jammed.
According to the Zambezia police Head of Public Relations, the authorities only learned of the incident from the media and said that until Renamo submitted an official complaint, there were no grounds for starting proceedings.
“We have no grounds to open a case. There must be a complaint to the effect,” Ernesto Serrote had reiterated.
Source: Lusa
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