4 people killed (1 baby, 1 policeman, 1 biker, and an adult); 17 wounded, including 5 police officers; 11 people arrested; and 3 PNC weapons stolen by “inciviques”, this is the official report declared by the government after the clashes which took place during the Dead City Day in Goma launched this Monday, December 20, 2021 by civil society to decry criminality in several entities of the North Kivu province and the announced entry of the Rwandan Police.
Following the dead city decreed this Monday, December 20, 2021 by the Citizen movements and Civil Society organizations, socio-economic and educational activities remained paralyzed, despite the intervention of the police who tried to restore calm. It was during this police intervention that the situation degenerated between elements of the police and young people who wanted to barricade the Mutinga-Majengo road, north of the city of Goma, to cut off all traffic. It was then that several shots were heard on this axis.
According to several sources, this altercation resulted in the death of at least 3 people including a baby who allegedly received a stray bullet from a cabin crew member. “The bullet would have hit him in the neck as well as his mother who would be seriously injured. “
Other dozens of injured during the clashes, which began in the early hours of the morning, were dispatched to CBCA / Ndosho hospital for treatment.
“People with guns in demonstrations”
On the side of the police there is also one dead and at least 4 seriously injured. According to the head of the Police in North Kivu, General Aba Van Ang, “This is a PNC commissioner, who was killed by the demonstrators who had bladed weapons. “
He also indicated that “The demonstrators also took three weapons from the police officers who were on the line of repression of the demonstration. “
During a joint press conference held in Goma on Monday with the provincial police commissioner, General Sylvain Ekenge, spokesperson for the Governor of North Kivu, for his part announced the tracking of activists of citizen movements fighting for the change (LUCHA) and the Veranda Mutsanga, which according to him, violated the order of the Head of State Felix Tshisekedi, instituting the state of siege.
“You ask people to observe a dead city day but then you see people with guns in the morning in demonstrations. Dead City means to demonstrate with weapons? I’m talking about the Lucha and the Mutsanga veranda, these people will be hunted down because they violated the ordinance proclaiming the state of siege. Demonstrations are prohibited during this exceptional period of the state of siege, ”insisted Sylvain Ekenge.
He claims that the demonstrators were “armed” and their objective was to “sabotage” the state of siege in the province of North Kivu.
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