Salomon Idi Kalonda Della, special adviser to Moïse Katumbi was transferred to Ndolo Prison, after his interrogation at the military prosecutor’s office. According to a judicial source, a trial will be organized very soon.
The charges against him are serious: illegal carrying of weapons and preparation of a coup d’etat. The military intelligence services maintain that the offending weapon belongs to the bodyguard of Augustin Matata Ponyo, according to testimony from the former prime minister, now in opposition.
The searches carried out Thursday in Lubumbashi, in particular the residence of Salomon Idi Kalonda Della and his mother, as well as the property of Moïse Katumbi in Kinshasa, are denounced as being irregular by the lawyers of the leader of the opposition and certain members of his party policy.
Dieudonné Bolengetenge, secretary general of Ensemble pour la République, denounced “an instrumentalization of state services for political ends” and “harassment which only aims to muzzle the opposition and veil the insufficiencies of the power in place “.
These events occur in a tense political context, marked by opposition demonstrations in Kinshasa last June.
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