A student was shot to death on Saturday, July 24 in Kinshasa by a police officer after a check went wrong.
On Saturday afternoon, in the Liberation District of Selembao commune, a group of students film as part of a practical work when a police officer approaches them for the first time to ask them for bribes, an eyewitness reports. “We gave him 3,000 F and he left. After 15 minutes, he returned with his colleagues. He started threatening, tearing off the equipment, this witness says. The assistant then went to negotiate but to our surprise he was arrested. When the students saw this, they decided to make a demand. ”
The tension is rising. One of the policemen then asks the students to disperse, but they refuse. “After the refusal, this is where there is a policeman … He started firing. He fired a bullet at an empty distance. He fired two more bullets and the student fell into place. There came the population, the police fled and there you have it,” he says. this witness.
In a statement, the police do not talk about attempted bribery. According to the police, the agents really wanted to check the permission to shoot, but that’s because they could not produce the document that the assistant then took … angrily the students throw projectiles at the police. It is by wanting to shoot a warning ball on the ground, ruthlessly, according to this press release, that the student is hit in the stomach. Police are currently on the run after abandoning their weapons and uniforms.
On Sunday morning, Commissioner Sylvano Kasongo Kitenge condemns “with the utmost energy that this police force is blinding too much”. He assures us that the fleeing police will be arrested to stand trial. His colleagues and his master have already been arrested to determine their possible involvement. According to him, one of the policemen is seriously injured in the head after the population set fire to the police station. He now urges students to be calm.
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