DRC: one year after the death of General Delphin Kahimbi where is the investigation?
General Delphin Kahimbi, here near Goma in October 2008, died in February 2020 and the circumstances of his death are still unclear, eight months later.
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One year already that General Delphin Kahimbi, head of military intelligence of the DRC, has died in circumstances which have still not been clarified.
It was February 28, 2020, in his residence in Kinshasa.
The family of this officer asks the government to shed light on this matter, to arrest the killers, to bring them to justice and to punish them according to the law.
Military justice sent this file to civil justice.
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Kamanda Wa Kamanda
According to judicial sources in Kinshasa, it has been about two weeks since this file was sent to the Gombe general prosecutor's office for investigation.
Still, the magistrate who will have to deal with it has not yet received it.
If the military justice has relinquished it, it is because, at this stage, no man in uniform is involved.
Only civilians are under arrest following the investigation carried out by the commission set up: the nephew and pastor of General Kahimbi's wife as well as the lady who had facilitated the hiring of the household's servant. , a servant who has been missing since the general's death.
As
for Kahimbi's wife
and her aunt, they were placed under house arrest a few days after the officer's burial.
All of these people are suspected of murder and complicity in murder.
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of General Kahimbi, her younger brother, on behalf of the family, asks the government to clarify the circumstances of this disappearance which, according to her, have not yet been clarified, despite the investigations carried out.
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