Killers of former DR Congo president released from jail

Killers of former DR Congo president released from jail
By AFP
JAN 8, 2021
Col. Eddy Kapend, an aide to assassinated president Laurent Kabila, after his release on Friday. By Arsene Mpiana (AFP)
Twenty-two men convicted over the 2001 assassination of Democratic Republic of Congo president Laurent-Desire Kabila were released from prison Friday after receiving pardons from current leader Felix Tshisekedi.
The men were met outside Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa by family and friends, some in tears.
Among those released was the slain president's former aide de camp Colonel Eddy Kapend, who has always denied any part in the plot to murder Kabila, father of Tshisekedi's predecessor and political rival Joseph Kabila.

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