11 dead, including two police officers during the Fally concert on Saturday evening October 29 in Kinshasa, this is the official report of the excesses which would have taken place in and around the Martyrs stadium. But two days after the incidents, the vagueness persists on the circumstances, the responsibilities and the very number of these deaths.
As of Sunday morning, the Deputy Minister of the Interior recognized that 2 of the 11 victims were police officers, one of whom had been injured with his weapon. Daniel Asselo nevertheless incriminated the organizer of the concert: he is actively wanted and ” he must be punished ” because'” he went beyond the capacity of the stadium “, he said.
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Today, the manager of Fally, co-producer and therefore co-organizer of the show with the artist, affirms that neither the technicians nor the medical teams have noticed any jostling in the stadium, and that he is looking in vain for 48 hours to meet the families of the victims in Kinshasa. ” We sold 80,000 seats and 5,000 standing “, He continues, implying that the over-gauge is not due to the organizers.
An investigation requested
How could the ticket office malfunction? Why was only one of the eight doors open? Was there a failure of the police and the authorities in the security around the stadium? Beyond the organizers of the event, the human rights organization Voice of the Voiceless also points to the responsibility of the authorities of the city of Kinshasa, the first responsible for the security of the citizens of the capital of the DRC.
The Voice of the Voiceless today demands an investigation into the role of each protagonist in this drama, says its executive secretary, Rostin Manketa Nkwahata.
Drama at the Martyrs stadium: “shared negligence” for Rostin Manketa Nkwahata