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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
A witness who is a member of the Islamic Defenders Front (REIT) and follow the control of the High Priest of the FPI Rizieq Shihab in a series of laskar crash incidents and Policeman He admitted some time ago that his group did not have or carry sharp weapons when the incident occurred.
The witness said that the paramilitaries of the FPI were only victims of slander due to a series of clashes that led to the shooting of the police against their members on Monday (7/12) in the early hours of last morning.
“The issue of the accusations that we are equipped with sharp weapons is not with us, the FPI does not exist and we have never had it,” said the undercover witness on the Mata Najwa program that aired on Trans7, Wednesday night (16 / 12).
The general secretary of FPI Munarman also confirmed the witness’s testimony. He claimed that the FPI had prohibited all members from possessing sharp objects or firearms.
Munarman also described the conditions at the time of the confrontation. According to him, there were five cars that departed for the sunrise recitation site specifically for Rizieq Shihab’s main family.
He also recounted the sequence of car trips at the time. A head car of the travel escort in front of the content of six people.
Then behind him was the Rizieq family car, and the three cars behind it were the FPI Laskar guards, each with six people.
“The Laskar’s job is to secure every recitation, ustadz escort and FPI management. Because we have historical events from 1965 to 1963, many kyai were killed, persecuted,” Munarman explained.
From there, Munarman believed that the FPI laskar was just a guard on Rizieq’s trip, who could not carry a sharp weapon as mentioned by the police. Police said the FPI laskar carried two firearms, bullets, samurai, sickles and other sharp weapons.
“Laskar is just a name to distinguish the ordinary members of the FPI, they only wear uniforms. Never. [bawa senjata], and the organizational standards in the FPI card are prohibited from carrying sharp weapons, firearms and explosives, it is prohibited ”, he explained.
Seeing these findings, Munarman urged the government to form an independent team to investigate this case. This is because there is a difference in information between the FPI and the police.
“We do not know where the police evidence came from. We checked with the laskar, he did not say. It was an expensive weapon, 20 million rupees, that our laskar could not afford to buy. It would later be discovered if Komnas HAM conducted an investigation,” he concluded Munarman.
Previously, the police said that the FPI laskar who was involved in the confrontation had been shot and killed for attacking the officers with pistols and sharp weapons.
Meanwhile, the head of the Public Information Office of the National Police, Brigadier General Awi Setiyono, said that his party is investigating the origin of the possession of firearms belonging to this group of people suspected of being Rizieq sympathizers.
(khr / agt)
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