Z’bar’s knife attacker ferried to Dar for further questioning
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The move about taking the suspect known by the name of Suleiman Mohamed Jussa,25, to Dar es Salaam for further interrogations was due to the procedures of the Police Force.
Zanzibar. A man suspected of injuring and attacking six people with a knife, including four foreigners, who were at Lukmaan Restaurant in the area of Mkunazini in Zanzibar Town, has been taken to the Mainland for further questioning.
The move about taking the suspect known by the name of Suleiman Mohamed Jussa,25, to Dar es Salaam for further interrogations was due to the procedures of the Police Force.
The Unguja Urban Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr Hassan Nassir Ali, told The Citizen in his office on Tuesday afternoon that the suspect had already arrived at the Police Force Headquarters for questioning over the charges facing him.
Besides that, the RPC said Zanzibar’s police had an opportunity of questioning the suspect for three days before he was taken to Tanzania mainland for completing the procedures of the Police Force.
He said they were expecting that after interrogations on the mainland, the suspects would be returned to Zanzibar to face legal organs and answer to the charges facing him.
“We have already questioned him, but it has been recommended that he must be taken to Tanzania Mainland for further questioning over the charges facing him as after that he would be returned here for other legal steps,” said Mr Nassir.
In the previous questioning, he said Zanzibar’s Police Force found out that the suspect was on drugs. Among the victims in the knife incident are Jennifer Wolf,24, a German national, who was stabbed on the head; Mauget Gerarol, 66, a Frech national, who was attacked in the eye; Anna Catharina,20, a German national; Tanzanian Hassan Abdallah, 24, a resident of Kiponda, Zanzibar; Sajad Hussein ‘Muhindi’, 55, a resident of Mkunazini, Zanzibar and Liying Liang, a Canadian.
