Public Prosecution Service says that Venâncio Mondlane created “Panic” and “Terror” leading Mozambique to “Chaos”
The Mozambican Public Prosecution Service (MP) accuses the politician Venâncio Mondlane of having acted with premeditation and supported by third parties in the five crimes that he accuses him, within the scope of post-election manifestations, admitting to review the coercion measures.
In the order of prosecution, delivered to the former presidential candidate on Tuesday, at the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), in Maputo, and to which Lusa has today accessed, the MP imputes Venâncio Mondlane to “material and moral authorship, in a real competition of infractions”, the crimes of public apology to crime, of incitement to collective disobedience, from public instigation to a crime, to instigate to an instigation to an instigation to an instigation to an instigation to an instigation to a crime, to an instigation terrorism and incitement to terrorism.
For the MP, “against the defendant militates” “aggravating” circumstances such as “being the crime committed with premeditation”, as well as “committed by calling, pact or execution between two or more people”, using the “means of advertising” and thereby have “crime contest”.
“There are no attenuating circumstances,” also describes the order of prosecution, which in addition to the testimonial evidence, gathering interviews, recordings of Venâncio Mondlane’s interventions on social networks, with appeals to protests against the results – which does not recognize – and a process involving the general elections of October 9, in which he ran for the president of the Republic, but also bank information, reports of the call of call and electronic transactions, among other documents, namely about the consequences of the protests.
“For now, it is understood that the defendant should remain subject to the Identity and Residence Term, already provided, without prejudice to its alteration according to the modification of the circumstances,” writes the order.
On Tuesday, before a strong police apparatus, with the headquarters of the PGR, in Maputo, banned to the automobile and pedestrian circulation, and with elements of the MP to receive it at the entrance with antibalan vests, the former presidential candidate explained, after 30 minutes to receive the notification, who goes to trial, with the support of an “international team” of “quiet awareness”, not recognizing the crimes that is now that he is now he is now accused.
“I have provided a great service to this nation. It is the first time in 30 years of democracy in which we managed to take the question of unraveling, removing the fraud. We took the mask out of fraud and led to the extreme resistance against a dictatorial regime that remains based on weapons, based on murders and kidnappings,” he told journalists Venâncio Mondlane.
“It is the first time since the national independence that the Mozambican people for a week sings the national anthem and feel the country feeling, feels that it belongs to a homeland, feels that it is proud to be Mozambican, all for me a great service provided to the country,” he said, alluding to the several months of post-election protests in Mozambique.
In the statements, the Mozambican justice accused of being “selective” in the treatment of this process: “It is a justice for those who are conformed to crime, who are promoters of this same crime, receive privileges. And those who want to combat this crime, those who want to combat this stage of misery in which the country is, are fought, are persecuted, being killed, are killed.”
Created “Panic” and “Terror” leading Mozambique to “Chaos”
The Mozambican Public Prosecution Service (MP) accuses the politician Venâncio Mondlane of having appealed to a “revolution” in post-election protests, causing “panic” and “terror” in the population, blaming him for deaths and diving the country into “chaos”.
In the order of prosecution, delivered on Tuesday, at the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), in Maputo, to the former presidential candidate, and to which Lusa today had access to, the MP appeals, as much of the evidence, to appeals to the contestation, strikes, stoppages and mobilization for protests made in the directs of Venâncio Mondlane in the various phases of the electoral process. 2024 in Mozambique.
“The facts practiced by the defendant put into question, in a serious way, fundamental legal goods, such as life, the physical and psychic integrity of people, the freedom of circulation, the order, safety and public tranquility, as well as the normal functioning of public and private institutions,” he reads.
The MP imputes Venâncio Mondlane, presidential candidate in the general elections of October 9 and who does not recognize the results, the “material and moral authorship, in real competition of infractions”, the crimes of public apology to crime, incitement to collective disobedience, public instigation to a crime, instigation to terrorism and incitement to terrorism.
He states that he resorted to social networks “to facilitate the dissemination of his radical ideas, which entitled to revolution,” which “actually happened, since the publications were visualized, commented and shared by several people, who put them into practice.”
Mozambique has lived since the October elections a climate of strong social agitation, with demonstrations and stoppages called by Mondlane, who rejects the electoral results that gave Victoria to Daniel Chapo, supported by Frelimo, a party in power, as fifth president of the Republic.
According to non-governmental organizations that accompany the electoral process, about 400 people died as a result of clashes with the police, as well as destroying public and private heritage, looting and violence, conflicts that ceased after meetings between Mondlane and Chapo on March 23 and May 20, with a view to pacification.
For the MP, Mondlane “was aware of the gravity and consequences of the manifestations he systematically called” and that they “blocked the roads and prevented the circulation of people and goods.”
“The defendant’s appeals came to the knowledge of an indefinite number of people, who realized them, conducting protests, which led to the occupation of streets and avenues of the city of Maputo, as well as other urban centers in the country, and withdrawals of public and private goods. Still in compliance with the guidelines of the defendant, that group of people attacked large barricades with tires, stones, trunk, trunks of trees and waste containers, ”he says.
According to the prosecution, “as a result of their pronouncements, several citizens were deprived of basic services, public and private services were paralyzed” and “the wave of protests and violence arising from the guidelines given by the defendant originated the death of various citizens, destruction of public and private goods, causing a feeling of public insecurity, panic, terror in the general population”.
“Its guidelines also led to the closure of borders and destruction of their facilities, preventing the circulation of people and goods, the supply of markets, especially with first -need products, causing large damage to the national economy and a scenario of chaos in the country, as it propiled in its appeals,” he adds.
In his appeals, says the MP, Mondlane acted “with purpose, achieved, to instigate actions of violence and social turmoil, as well as developing a radicalization process, disseminating radical ideas and promoting acts of violence” through social networks, “through which you mobilized and encouraged young people to action against the Mozambican state entities and the general population”.
“The defendant, by ordering young people and other followers to block the streets, preventing the passage and circulation of people and goods, as well as to coerce citizens not to leave home, acted with the purpose of causing them fear and intimidation, and providing them with fear of suffering acts of violence against their lives and physical integrity, aware that these actions were appropriate to cause them, as effectively, as effectively and terror. caused it, ”concludes the MP.
