A Burundian couple escaped lynching this week in the Muhala-Expansão district of Nampula city, after being accused by neighbors of harboring terrorists in their home.
According to the newspaper NewsIt all started with a dispute over a plot of land allegedly owned by a 52-year-old man, whose identity has not been revealed, who is accused of spreading information that the couple were hosting terrorists.
However, last Saturday night, the couple said, the individual offered to sell the space, in a trap he had set to lynch them. "We bought the space 16 years ago. After those years, the man showed up saying he was the real owner of the land. This is where the problem begins," said one of the victims, adding that even so, the man in question had been offered negotiations several times as a way out of the problem, but to no avail.
Once the negotiation was unsuccessful, the supposed owner called the neighborhood and informed them that the Burundian couple were harboring terrorists.
The spokeswoman for the Republic of Mozambique Police (PRM), Rosa Chaúque, said that the attitude of the alleged owner of the space almost took the couple's lives. The source assured that the couple is being assisted by the authorities so that they are not lynched.
Now in the hands of the police, the accused denied all the accusations and said that these were maneuvers found by the couple to take over his space without due compensation.
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