The judge in the so-called "Danone case" in the province of Manica, Lúcio Ticha, said he had found no evidence to criminalize the video about the satirical staging of the corruption of the Traffic Police, played by three children, and acquitted the producer and uncle of the minors, Valter Danone..

The case had brought a journalist and her family to justice and received international attention because of the limitations on artistic freedoms.

According to VOA, the Public Prosecutor's Office said in the indictment that the video defamed the police and the state, but later changed the charge to exposing minors to danger.

Even so, the judge did not consider that there had been a criminal offense.

The defense believes that justice has been restored and that acquittal was the sensible thing to come out of that court.

The National Union of Journalists in Manica, which "denounced the injustice" from the outset, argues that the acquittal removed the chains that imprisoned freedom of expression, so it will train magistrates on satirical videos.

In the video, circulated on social media and on one of the children's YouTube page, a minor is shown staging the driving, while two others (including the journalist's grandson) play the role of traffic officers, questioning the driver and asking for two yogurts as a condition for overturning a fine of 50,000 meticais for multiple offenses.

The case brought by the Public Prosecutor's Office resulted from the fact that the six-year-old grandson of Radio Mozambique journalist Raquel Jorge appeared in a video staging the aforementioned act of corruption, a situation that the Public Prosecutor's Office interprets as "vulgarizing" the work of the agents, "offending and trivializing" the Mozambican state.

The provincial secretariat of the National Union of Journalists (SNJ) in Manica said at the time that the criminal case against the journalist and her family was "unprecedented and absurd", and called for the acquittal of the accused in the case.

"From the beginning of this process, we have understood that no crime has been committed, but there is intimidation, an attempt to curtail freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and above all freedom of artistic creation," said Nelson Benjamim, journalist and SNJ representative.