A group of five people were arrested on suspicion of killing a trader in December in the Cacheu region of Guinea-Bissau, the Attorney General’s Office said on Thursday.
According to the source, the suspects are from Guinea-Conakry, the same country from which the 38-year-old trader allegedly killed in December in the Ingore district of the Cacheu region in Guinea-Bissau came from.
This Thursday, the General Prosecutor’s Office reported that the representative of the prosecutor’s office at the regional court of Cacheu in the north of Guinea-Bissau “requested the preventive detention of five people from Guinea-Conakry, the alleged moral and material culprits of the death, as well as Conakry-Guinea and the trader who was beheaded in December.”
As he explains, “according to the criminal law in force in Guinea-Bissau, these detainees could be charged with qualified murder, the punishment for which could be up to 25 years in prison.”
The prosecutor’s office also reported that also in the Cacheu region, two cases of rape and sexual abuse of two minors by their parents were brought to court, for which penalties of up to 15 years in prison are provided.