Trial of MP Édouard Mwangachuchu in DRC: the contents of the safe revealed

MP Édouard Mwangachuchu is accused of having supported the M23 rebels (our illustration photo). © James Akena/Reuters

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In the DRC, the trial of MP Édouard Mwangachuchu Hizi before the Military High Court continues. The contents of the safe seized in the residence of the elected official in Kinshasa were revealed at the hearing on Tuesday, April 11. He is accused of supporting the M23 rebels.

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With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe

Among the evidence presented on Tuesday, April 11, are the contents of the safe and other property seized from the MP's residence in Kinshasa, but also weapons of war brought back from North Kivu. They were found hidden in the defendant's concession in Masisi territory.

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I am Congolese by origin, I am a Congolese with integrity, "responded the deputy at the bar. He denies accusations that the weapons were used by the M23 rebel movement. Mike Pungu Yodi, one of Edouard Mwangachuchu's lawyers, talks about a montage: "Our client lives here in Kinshasa. All that has been said, for us, are montages to want to sink it.

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Complicity

The Congolese state's lawyers are calling for patience. "The prosecution only made its report and filed the documents with the Court. When we read these pieces, that's when we will really know what is in them, that it is the content of these documents, "said Me Damien Amoneyi

Moreover, in its report, the public prosecutor points out that the men who served as guards in Mwangachuchu's society were in the vast majority Tutsis, demobilized from the Rwandan army, who operated in the uniform of the Congolese national police. Uniforms provided, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, with the complicity of provincial administrative authorities.

► Read also: DRC: MP Édouard Mwangachuchu tried before the High Military Court for "treason"

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