Five defendants accused of involvement in last year’s murder of the Italian ambassador to D.R. Congo have requested bail during a military court hearing in the capital Kinshasa.
One of the lawyers representing the Congolese defendants asked for his clients to be bailed from prison because “they are purely and simply innocent”.
A sixth person allegedly implicated in the murder is on the run.
Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, was among three people killed on February 22, 2021, when a United Nations convoy was ambushed in the country’s troubled east.