{"id":25291,"date":"2022-08-25T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests"},"modified":"2022-08-25T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:26:39","slug":"police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests","title":{"rendered":"Police apologise for wrongful arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican police have apologized for arresting four people last week, two Mozambican citizens and two South Africans, who were allegedly in possession of 32 illegal shotguns.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in Monday\u2019s issue of the independent newssheet \u201cMediafax\u201d, the police apologized because they reached the conclusion that there was nothing illegal about the guns.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ: Watch: Four arrested over alleged attempted smuggling of 32 shotguns from South Africa to Mozambique \u2013 reports<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The General Commander of the Mozambican police himself, Bernadino Rafael, speaking at a police ceremony on Saturday in Matalane, on the outskirts of Maputo, admitted the mistake. He said that, in reality, the police had granted a licence for the import of the 32 shotguns.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael said \u201cWe issue gun licences. When the guns enter the country, we want to compare them with the licence issued by the police, to check whether they are the same or not\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the existence of a valid gun licence, a magistrate had validated the detention of the two men last Thursday. Rafael said that was simple to solve, since the same magistrate could re-assess his decision with the arrival of new data.<\/p>\n<p>There had been a misunderstanding, he said, and so the police had apologized to the four men wrongfully arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Gun licensing was a police matter, Rafael said, \u201cand we should have handled the matter well, inside our institution. But sometimes emotions take over\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael confirmed the version given by the suspects last week \u2013 that the guns were for hunting purposes, and all the necessary legal procedures had been followed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/tvmiramar.mz\/posts\/pfbid0ZveiTDWNgCLrJq3GX5Ck9teQKnPwVHQBeCaAhWMoLvDR8S2uPt5XZ8RSnNLxs5L2l\"><b>Facebook Post click here<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. The Mozambican police have apologized for arresting four people last week, two Mozambican citizens and two South Africans, who were allegedly in possession of 32 illegal shotguns. According to a report in Monday\u2019s issue of the independent newssheet \u201cMediafax\u201d, the police apologized because they reached the conclusion that there was nothing illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-25291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police apologise for wrongful arrests - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mozambican police have apologized for arresting four people last week, two Mozambican citizens and two South African ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police apologise for wrongful arrests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mozambican police have apologized for arresting four people last week, two Mozambican citizens and two South African ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-25T15:22:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-25T15:26:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630794810528d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1389\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"964\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police apologise for wrongful arrests\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-25T15:22:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-25T15:26:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests\"},\"wordCount\":279,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630794810528d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-apologise-for-wrongful-arrests\",\"name\":\"Police apologise for wrongful arrests - 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