Former MPLA Secretary-General and general in reserve, Julião Mateus Paulo “Dino Matross” filed a criminal action on Monday against the lawyer who accused him of threatening him with death and of being involved in creating a false sentence.
The case is related to a dispute over land in the Lar Patriota neighborhood involving the Harmony of Lar Patriota Condominium and the Ana Ndengue Peasant Association.
Belo Mangueira, the lawyer for “Dino Matross” said that a criminal complaint had been filed against the lawyer of that association Sebastião Assureira who last week said he was the target of death threats.
Assureira also said on the same occasion that “Dino Matross” was involved in creating a false sentence in a court where his own daughter works.
“If there are death threats, you will have to prove it, if a daughter of the general works in the court you will have to prove it,” said Belo Mangueira, to whom the “Peasant Association” is involved in the invasion of land and to sell land that does not belong to them.
“In addition to slander, Ana Ndengue’s lords sell land that does not belong to them,” he said.
Belo Mangueira says that the process has been going on since 2000 and, at that time, the due compensation had already been made, so its constituent will no longer give in to blackmail by groups of invaders: “We cannot give in to blackmail and we will continue to fight in the judicial forum process ”.
The lawyer for Harmony of Lar Patriota Condominium says that even the compensated peasants were never the owners of the land because, in 1997, the State had already confiscated the area from the hand of a company named Gomes.
“Compensations were made only for harmony, as the Harmony of Lar Patriota Condominium says”.
