By Momodou Justice Darboe
At least 40 people were Thursday summoned at the police anti-crime unit headquarters in Bijilo for an identification parade in connection with July mass protests over the death of a 33-year-old Sierra Leonean national allegedly by the police, The Fatu Network has been told.
It would be recalled that mass protests erupted last month in some parts of the country’s largest city of Serekunda over the death of a Sierra Leonean youth allegedly as a result of police brutality.
The protesters, most of whom were youths, congregated at the Serekunda police station before embarking on a nearly five-kilometre trek to the Anti-Crime Unit Headquarters in Bijilo where they were involved in running battles with the police.
A reliable source has Thursday disclosed to this medium that almost all the youths that were summoned by the crime unit for identification purposes have been linked to one alleged offense or another in relation to the July protests.
“More than 40 youths were today paraded before investigators at the Anti-Crime Headquarters and virtually all of them have been said to be identified with the demonstrations,” the source added.
The police last week arrested a dozen youths and subsequently charged them with willful damage to property among other indictments. They were released on bail but were reporting to the police every other day at the time of writing this story.
