2024-08-07 12:31:48
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The Kindia Regional Police Directorate presented several alleged bandits in the presence of a group of journalists on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. Composed of alleged Indian hemp traffickers and robbers, these five people (including a 10-year-old minor) were arrested by a joint patrol of the defense and security forces.
In total, a significant quantity of Indian hemp (1 ton), a TVS brand motorcycle and five people and a victim were presented by the defense and security forces to the regional police headquarters. A result obtained following a collaboration of the defense and security forces, first explained the commander of the 1st military region of Kindia, Colonel Mamadi Condé. “Today, everyone knows that in terms of security, what the motorcycle taxi drivers take on here as a problem. All day long, it’s robberies, motorcycles are taken away and some are even killed. These phenomena are recurrent in the Kindia region and other corollary effects to that, it’s the sale and consumption of drugs that is known to all. This is why, all the defense and security forces of the region, we worked together to revitalize our mixed patrol. This is the result that is starting to come in. In this same week, a very able-bodied, dynamic young man whose job is to steal motorcycles. He is a specialist and he has all the keys. If I can have fun, even the OPJ will do their job. He is associated with something else, that is to say he was arrested by the patrol in possession of the TVS motorcycle which is in front of us. “, he said.
The other four people, including a 10-year-old minor, did not leave the commander indifferent. “The other four, if you have noticed today it is regrettable, that is why I am heartbroken to speak. It is a total resignation of the parents. These children that you see, there is one who declared that he is only 10 years old and it is he who held this weapon but made of rubber. Honestly, you have to be an expert to understand that it is not a rubber because when he points it at you, you start to respect it. These other four people pointed another taximeter. We hit him with the stone and the wood, the guy fell and fainted, it is with the screams that attracted the attention of the population and the patrol that was crisscrossing it was in the 2 a.m. bands that came (patrol) to pick up these four elements. The victim in question is there, he can’t even speak because the shock was so violent. It was God who saved him, otherwise it was to kill her,” he continued.
Continuing, Colonel Mamadi Condé gave information on the seizure of this significant quantity of Indian hemp. “This quantity of drugs is also the work of the patrol but more particularly the BAC 24 which does not sleep. The quantity seized is close to a ton of Indian hemp. This drug comes to contaminate the population. All that you hear as crimes are caused by these drugs because a normal man cannot kill his neighbor if he is not drunk or under the influence of narcotics. We, the defense and security forces of the region, we are there for work, we are there for the security of the population and its property and in the idea of the CNRD which has as its priorities the defense of territorial integrity, the protection of people and their property. So we, the defense and security forces, cannot accept that these viruses of society continue to infringe on the freedom of the population. We cannot accept, that is why we also ask the population to join the fight,” he added.
Aboubacar Dramé, regional correspondent in Kindia
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