The Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, Firmin Mvonde ordered, in a note intended for the Attorney General at the Matete Court of Appeal, to open a judicial investigation against Cardinal Fridolin Mabongo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa.
He orders the Attorney General at the Matete Court of Appeal to investigate “seditious behavior leading to criminal acts against Cardinal Ambongo”.
By his letter of April 27, Firmin Mvonde accuses the Catholic archbishop of “deliberately violating consciences and finding pleasure through the propagation of false rumors and incitement of populations to revolt against established institutions and attacks against human lives” . According to the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, at a time when the country is facing war in its eastern part, we observe in the behavior of the prelate a consistency of seditious remarks made during press briefings, interviews and sermons of likely to discourage the FARDC soldiers who are fighting at the front. But also, he adds, comments inciting mistreatment by rebels and other invaders of local populations already bruised by so many years of destabilization.
Invited to his office on April 25 for an exchange around certain files under investigation, Cardinal Ambongo declined the invitation, argues Firmin Mvonde in the prosecutor’s letter.
For all these reprehensible acts, the general public prosecutor’s office at the Court of Matete should therefore open a judicial investigation against the Cardinal.
“Acting otherwise will amount to a denial of justice on your part and your inactivism will be considered complicity with reprehensible acts”warns the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, in his letter addressed to the Attorney General at the Matete Court of Appeal.
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, but also the chancellery of the archdiocese of Kinshasa or even CENCO, have not yet reacted to this request from the attorney general at the Court of Cassation.