Last Friday (31), the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) in Nampula presented two individuals arrested in connection with the assault and robbery of a Cuban doctor's residence in the provincial capital.

According to a publication on the IkweliThe confessed criminals took possession of various items, including a computer and an estimated 300,000 meticais.

"We were passing by, so we saw these doctors leaving and closing the door, and we took advantage of that and stole the goods," said one of the detainees, who claims that this is the second time he has been sent to prison for criminal acts.

The other detainee said that some of the money they had stolen was in foreign currency, so they couldn't exchange it because they didn't know the real value.

One of the victims explains that "we were robbed at around 8am when we left, because we were delivering keys to a colleague who was on vacation, so when we found out we'd been robbed we called the police and the SERNIC agents, but thank God for their work we're seeing and recovering some things, because others were lost".

Enina Tsinine, SERNIC's spokesperson in Nampula, said that one of the detainees was a repeat offender. "One of the defendants is a repeat offender," she said, also linking him to crimes of fraud.

"One of the resident defendants uses a false identity, in addition to the one he's called, he has several passages on our record, but now he's presenting himself as Mussa Muzuri, whose real name is Mussa Mussa, he's a very dangerous individual and we've had many cases of car theft, not only in Nampula province, but also in Beira, Manica and Quelimane," Tsinine said of one of the detainees.

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