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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The hearings in the war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi got underway on Tuesday after a two week delay because of judges’ illness.
The court, held at a secret location, as it had been in Monrovia, heard from three witnesses – a woman and two men. Defence and prosecution teams tried to establish whether Massaquoi could have been in Liberia to commit crimes in 2003 as many Liberian witnesses claimed but while Massaquoi was under witness protection in Freetown.
The second witness, codenamed “21”, to protect him from intimidation was called by the Defence team. A male he had been a close friend of Massaquoi whom he got to know him in 1999 after Massaquoi was freed from prison here.
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Gibril Massaquoi remains in Finland during the Sierra Leone hearings in his war crimes trial. Leslie Lumeh/New Narratives
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The hearings in the war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi got underway on Tuesday after a two week delay because of judges’ illness. The court, held at a secret location, as it had been in Monrovia, heard from three witnesses – a woman and two men. Defense and prosecution teams tried to establish whether Massaquoi could have been in Liberia to commit crimes in 2003 as many Liberian witnesses claimed but while Massaquoi was under witness protection in Freetown.
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National Police Board chief inspector
Vesa Pihajoki expressed hesitancy about a working group s proposal to equip patrol officers with naloxone, a medication that can prevent opiate overdoses.
In an aim to prevent overdose fatalities, an expert working group is examining whether Finland should distribute naloxone to addicts and their families free-of-charge.
Pihajoki said putting the onus on police officers to decide when to administer medication in the field would be troublesome. Guards in police department jails dispense doctor-prescribed medications, at predetermined dosages. For that reason alone, training needed to be arranged so that the distribution of meds could be handled, Pihajoki said.
Police in Tampere, Finland, have arrested one man in connection with a city centre fire that killed three people. According to forensic evidence, the fire, which started in the morning of Monday22nd November at a fast food restaurant, was intentionally set.
Two people where witnessed leaving the scene but police have declined to confirm whether the man they detained on Tuesday is thought to be one of them. Two figures dressed in dark clothes were seen running from the area towards the Kyttala region shortly after the fire began.
Three people died and another four were hospitalised after the blaze spread through the foreign-owned kebab-pizzeria take away. The fire is being investigated as four cases of battery, three of first degree manslaughter and one of aggravated arson.