Supposed patrol group assaults a citizen

A citizen was assaulted by an alleged patrol group of residents in Tsalala neighborhood in the city of Matola.

He is resident in Tchumene neighborhood, but during wrong time was stopped in the wrong place at the Tsalala district, municipality of Matola and assaulted by suspected members of community police armed with machetes.

The relatives of the victim are outraged with the situation and accuse the local leader of doing nothing to solve the case and are threatening their family.

The head of the neibhourhood denies the charges and says that sometimes he is not aware of patrols carried out in his neighborhood and that the citizen was mistaken for a criminal. 

It is in response to the alleged lack of police raids that residents of some neighborhoods do patrols,usually during the dead of night.