Dutch and Congolese medical examiners
The autopsy on the body of Flori Chebeya was conducted on Friday, June 11, at Kinshasa Mama Yemo Hospital by Dutch medical examiner Frank van de Goot, who was assisted by two other members of his team: another medical examiner and a forensic photographer. Dr Tshomba Honda, a Congolese medical examiner, participated in the autopsy.
Though the preliminary results of the autopsy are “inconclusive,” the hypothesis of murder has already been retained by Attorney General Flory Kabange Numbi.
As the medical examiners were leaving for the Netherlands, the Dutch embassy in Kinshasa released a statement that read in part:
“No cause of death has yet been established for certain…Nothing excludes the use of violence… "[The] autopsy does not indicate up to now any sign of excessive force…. Additional, more extensive examinations will be conducted at several [forensic] institutes in the Netherlands.”
In the meantime, DRC Minister of Justice, Professor Emmanuel Luzolo Bambi Lessa, had a meeting with Congolese human rights groups on the sensitive issue of the funerals on Independence Day. As he couldn’t convince the angry activists to set the funerals for another date, he urged them not to be unruly on June 30.
After the meeting with the Justice Minister, Marie-André Kayembe, the spokesman of the rights groups, said:
“We consider that June 30 is a sacred day for our country. Chebeya is a martyr of our country; for us, this will be a way of paying tribute to him.”
For Kayembe, the investigation would only lead to one conclusion:
“We are convinced and sure that the enquiry will lead to this: Floribert Chebeya was tortured on police premises and he died of it.”
2) Kinshasa Police Chief Gen Jean de Dieu Oleko under house arrest :
Gen Jean de Dieu Oleko
The position of Gen Jean de Dieu Oleko had become untenable of late—especially after making radio and televised statements claiming that the police had “found […] the corpse of a man without any visible sign of violence, whose pants fly zipper was open and beside whom were two condoms already used and one unused tree-condom pack; a box of the [Indian-made erectile] stimulant Davigra containing a bubble pack of two tablets already used; two artificial nails and a few women’s artificial hair extensions.”
For uttering such blatantly false statement, Gen Jean de Dieu Oleko was put under house arrest on Friday, June 11, by the special investigative unit of the National Security Council which is in the purview of President Kabila.
According to Le Soft, a newspaper close to the ruling presidential majority:
“While one can’t accuse [Gen Oleko] of killing the rights activist Floribert Chebeya Mahizire, the chief of police of the capital is henceforth in this case the number one suspect. For attempting to mislead the public, for whatever reasons best known to himself.”
Other senior intelligence police officers were also arrested Friday, including Major Georges Kitulwa Amisi.
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