The Mozambique Police warn of “the trend towards urban terrorism” in opposition protests

The police chief compares the riots to the acts of terrorism by the Islamic State in the north of the country

Nov. 13. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The chief of the Mozambique Police, Bernardino Rafael, has demanded an end to the “violent protests” and has warned of “the trend towards urban terrorism” in the mobilizations called by the opposition after the publication of the results of the last elections. , in which the official candidate, Daniel Chapo, won.

“Due to the total affront to what governs social coexistence and the serious challenge to social order, I believe there is an urgent need to say ‘enough’ to violent protests,” he said, before also pointing out the existence of ” clear evidence of subversion”.

Rafael has maintained that the protests seek to “sabotage the achievements of Mozambicans” and has shown his willingness to collaborate with those who are willing to stop the mobilizations, as reported by the Mozambican state news agency, AIM.

Likewise, he has compared the recent marches with the acts of terrorism perpetrated by the jihadist group Islamic State in West Africa (ISCA) in the province of Cabo Delgado, located in the north of the country and shaken by attacks and attacks for several years.

For its part, the Mozambican Prosecutor’s Office has said that it is working on 208 cases arising from the unrest in the protests, called by the opponent Venancio Mondlane, who rejects Chapo’s victory and claims to be the winner of the presidential elections held in October.

Mondlane has stated on several occasions that the minutes his party has demonstrate its victory, although neither the opponent nor the electoral commission have published the minutes of the polling stations, which maintains uncertainty about who the winner was.

The opposition has recently called for a new round of demonstrations this week to protest the election results and has asked the population to demonstrate in ports, border areas and provincial capitals. “We are going to paralyze everything,” promised Mondlane, who is currently in exile and appears through speeches on his Facebook account.

The Mozambican opposition parties that ran in the presidential elections at the beginning of October signed a joint statement denouncing irregularities during the elections in favor of Chapo, after Podemos published a parallel count that maintains that Mondlane won 53, 38 percent of the votes, ahead of the 35.66 percent collected by Chapo, to whom the electoral commission has given more than 70 percent of the support.