Ngozi: the provincial Court sentenced a police officer who killed three people to a life jail
Déo Ndayisenga was sentenced on Monday in a flagrante delicto trial. It is the First Instance Court of Ngozi (northern Burundi) that punished him.
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This PNB (Burundi National Police) officer who killed three people in a bar located in the town center of Ngozi last Saturday, pleaded guilty. However, he mentioned self-defense, arguing that his victims were going to disarm him at the time of the crime.
Witnesses denied his statements. The Court therefore sentenced Déo Ndayisenga to a life jail. He will also have to pay the victims’ families an amount of 175 million Burundi francs. If he fails to find this sum, Officer Ndayisenga will be subject to a corporal constraint of 835 years.
A hundred residents had participated in this trial. Déo Ndayisenga had been arrested by his colleagues last Sunday in his hiding place in the Rubuye neighborhood of Ngozi. Residents who had come to follow the trial spoke of “relief”.
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Illustration photo : Burundian police officers in a parade on the sidelines of Burundi’s Independence Day in the commercial city of Bujumbura (SOS Médias Burundi)
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