Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa.
FILE - Workers stand by a memorial for Democratic Republic of the Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba, in Kinshasa , Congo, June 20, 2022. During the break-in on Monday, a case containing a single gold-capped tooth — the only part of the former leader that remained after his assassination — was broken by the vandals, according to authorities. It wasn’t immediately clear what happened to the tooth.
“We are happy that the perpetrators of this act have been arrested,” Jean-Jacques Lumumba, one of Lumumba’s grandsons, told The Associated Press over the phone.The mausoleum holding Congo independence hero Lumumba’s gold-capped tooth is vandalized His body was dismembered and dissolved with acid in an apparent effort to keep any grave from becoming a pilgrimage site.
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