Mozambican gov't condemns killing of prominent lawyer
Xinhua, March 4, 2015 Adjust font size:
The killing of a prominent Mozambican lawyer and university lecturer was a "hideous" act, a senior official has said.
"The government considers this acts as hideous; that is why it condemns it strongly," Antonio Gaspar, a presidential advisor, told reporters Tuesday.
"The government has instructed the Interior Ministry to continue investigating the crime to neutralize the criminals so that they can be punished," he said.
Gilles Cistac, who was viewed as sympathetic to opposition calls for decentralization of power in the southern African country, died of his wounds earlier in the day after being shot by "four unknown men" on a central thoroughfare in the Mozambican capital of Maputo.
Police are investigating possible motives for the killing, Gaspar said.
Cistac, 54 and of French origin, has worked as an adviser to various cabinet ministers over the years. He had also advised the Administrative Tribunal, which oversees the legality of public spending. Endi