The Mozambican police on
Thursday publicly presented eight people arrested the previous day in a drugs
raid against houses in the Coop neighbourhood of Maputo.This area, which once
housed military personnel, has become so notorious for drug dealing that it is
known colloquially as “Columbia”. The police moved on the area in force and
with sniffer dogs. They moved from house to house looking for drugs, and at one
point caused panic by firing into the air, apparently to stop suspects from
fleeing.The haul from the raid was derisory – just small amounts of cocaine and
marijuana, a few syringes, and 20,000 meticais (about 500 US dollars) which the
police believed was the result of drugs sales.The police denied claims that the
raid was illegal, and showed reporters a search warrant signed by a judge of
the Maputo City Court.The spokesperson for the Maputo City Police Command,
Oelando Mudumane, admitted that the amounts seized were small, Nonetheless, he
insisted “these are drugs that cost a lot of money. They are dangerous and
forbidden drugs”.“Measures are being taken to neutralize other members of the
gang who escaped yesterday”, said Mudumane, cited in Friday’s issue of the
independent daily “O Pais”.He admitted that those arrested were not key figures
in the drug trafficking rings. “We are making efforts to discover who the real
suppliers of these drugs are”, he said.Some of the detainees denied all knowledge
of illicit drugs, while others admitted they had drugs in their homes, but
claimed they were for their own consumption and insisted they were not drug
dealers. The woman from whom the 20,000 meticais was taken claimed the true sum
seized was 200,000 meticais, and the police had pocketed most of it. None of
those who admitted to possessing drugs would tell the police how they had
obtained them.The police replied that, if the detainees would not tell them who
the suppliers were, they would act on the assumption that the people they had
arrested were indeed the pushers.For years this area has been notorious for
dealing in hard drugs including heroin. The fact that the seizures were so
meager strongly suggests that the real drug dealers knew the police were coming
and hid their stocks.Friday, October 16, 2015
EIGHT ARRESTED IN POLICE DRUGS RAID
The Mozambican police on
Thursday publicly presented eight people arrested the previous day in a drugs
raid against houses in the Coop neighbourhood of Maputo.This area, which once
housed military personnel, has become so notorious for drug dealing that it is
known colloquially as “Columbia”. The police moved on the area in force and
with sniffer dogs. They moved from house to house looking for drugs, and at one
point caused panic by firing into the air, apparently to stop suspects from
fleeing.The haul from the raid was derisory – just small amounts of cocaine and
marijuana, a few syringes, and 20,000 meticais (about 500 US dollars) which the
police believed was the result of drugs sales.The police denied claims that the
raid was illegal, and showed reporters a search warrant signed by a judge of
the Maputo City Court.The spokesperson for the Maputo City Police Command,
Oelando Mudumane, admitted that the amounts seized were small, Nonetheless, he
insisted “these are drugs that cost a lot of money. They are dangerous and
forbidden drugs”.“Measures are being taken to neutralize other members of the
gang who escaped yesterday”, said Mudumane, cited in Friday’s issue of the
independent daily “O Pais”.He admitted that those arrested were not key figures
in the drug trafficking rings. “We are making efforts to discover who the real
suppliers of these drugs are”, he said.Some of the detainees denied all knowledge
of illicit drugs, while others admitted they had drugs in their homes, but
claimed they were for their own consumption and insisted they were not drug
dealers. The woman from whom the 20,000 meticais was taken claimed the true sum
seized was 200,000 meticais, and the police had pocketed most of it. None of
those who admitted to possessing drugs would tell the police how they had
obtained them.The police replied that, if the detainees would not tell them who
the suppliers were, they would act on the assumption that the people they had
arrested were indeed the pushers.For years this area has been notorious for
dealing in hard drugs including heroin. The fact that the seizures were so
meager strongly suggests that the real drug dealers knew the police were coming
and hid their stocks.
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