Two men are doomed in Zambia for trying to drive and kill the president

A court in Zambia sentenced two men to two years in prison for trying to use witchcraft to kill Hockey Hockey Hicilema President.

Zambian Leonard Firi and Mozambique Jasten Mabules Kandand were convicted in accordance with the witchcraft law after being arrested in December, including in their live chameleon.

“I was considered the opinion that the convicts were not only the enemy of the head of state, but also the enemies of all Zambians,” Magistrate Finan Maamba said in his decision.

In Zambia, the case was carefully fulfilled, as it was the first time that one was subjected to trial for trying to use witchcraft against the president.

The prosecution claimed that Firi and Kandunde were hired by a former refugee deputy to charm Hickem.

Despite the infusion that they are conscientious traditional healers, the court found them guilty under two articles under the law on witchcraft.

“Both accepted the spell. Firi also demonstrated that the tail of Hameleon, which once struck and used in the ritual, would lead to death for five days,” said Magistrate.

The lawyer of the two men, Agrippa Malanda, said his clients acknowledged the decline because they were for the first time in violators.

He urged the court to clear them, but the request was rejected.

The Maombi magistrate noted that many people in Zambia, like other African countries, believed in witchcraft, although it was not scientifically proven.

The law was designed to protect the society from fear and harm caused by those who claim that he has power to exercise witchcraft acts, he said.

“The question is not whether the magicians are accused or actually possess the supernatural forces. They represented themselves as such, but the evidence clearly show that they did,” said the Magmbian magistrate.

In addition to the two -year sentence, which they advocated the “execution” of witchcraft, men were sentenced to six months in prison for possession.

As the sentences will work at the same time, they will serve only two years of imprisonment operating from the date of arrest in December 2024.

Earlier, Hicilya said he did not believe in witchcraft. He did not comment on the case.

Dixon lawyer Jere told BBC that the witchcraft law was passed during the colonial administration in 1914.

He said that people were “very rarely” prosecuted for practicing witchcraft, but it helped to defend older women who were faced with justice at the mafia in the villages after being accused of fascinating and caused death.

Witchcraft also markedly participated in talks over tightened disputes between the government and family of the late President Edgar Lung over his funeral.

Some people believe that the government’s perseverance to be buried in Zambia, contrary to his family’s wishes, may be for “occult reasons”.

The government has denied the allegations.

Lung died in South Africa in June, and his body is still in the morgue of non -compliance with his funeral agreement.