Voices have been raised since its arrest to ensure that it is only a scapegoat, while failures to safety and fire systems are involved.
The man suspected of being at the origin of the fire that ravaged the South African Parliament on January 2 in Cape Town, Tuesday, January 11, “terrorism”. The accused “is guilty of offense offense to the provisions of (…) Protection of democracy against terrorism and associated activities”, according to the indictment consultated by the France-Presse Agency.
Zandile Christmas MAFE, 49, had been arrested on Sunday, January 2nd when he was in the grounds of Parliament and had been charged three days later at a brief appearance before a Cape Tribunal. The man was already accused of having broken into the immense building located in the center of Cape, to have “set fire to the buildings of the Parliament” and to have stolen “laptops, dishes and Documents “.
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Since its arrest, voices have risen to ensure that it was only a scapegoat, feeling that failures for safety and anti systems -Incendary are to be questioned. “Free MAFE!”, “He is innocent!” Have a thirty protesters came from Tuesday before the Cape Tribunal at the opening of the hearing. A homeless was among them to tell his version of the fire. He says he slept in a street along the building and heard like a collision. It ensures then understand that it was a break in, before the fire does not declare in the building.