Editorial staff with AFP
01/03/2025 at 6:23 p.m.
The man forcibly took a colleague’s keys before unlocking the doors of several cells. Thirteen of them fled and are now “fugitives”. For his part, the police officer in question was arrested.
The year is off to a good start for some. Bad for others. On New Year’s Eve, thirteen suspected criminals held in a Zambian prison were freed from their cells by a drunken police officer. The latter assured them that for the new year, they were free, indicates the local police.
The police officer, “in a state of intoxication, forcibly took the keys” from a colleague and “unlocked the doors of the cells of men and women, ordering them to leave”. Of the fifteen prisoners concerned, 13 of them rushed out of their cells on the morning of December 31. “The suspects remain fugitives,” police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga told AFP on Friday.
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Among them are “suspects being prosecuted for serious crimes” and “the fact of releasing them could pose a significant risk to public safety.” » The police officer, for his part, was arrested shortly after his guilty initiative.
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