Namibia: Second Cop Saw Gun With 'Struggle Children'

ONE of the 'children of the liberation struggle' involved in a stormy demonstration at the Swapo head office in Windhoek on 27 August last year was seen with a pistol in his possession, another police officer testified in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.

Police constable Maveerepi Hepute told Judge Christie Liebenberg that he saw a young man pulling out what looked like a pistol and cocking the firearm while police officers and protesting 'struggle children' at the ruling party's head office were engaged in an exchange of stone throwing. Hepute said he retreated after he had seen the man raising the pistol with his arm in a horizontal position, and that the man then ran away from the scene as stones continued to be thrown back and forth between the police and the 'struggle children'.

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