"The young man did not die at the demonstration and these were the doctors' statements about the young man's death, so the young man's death had nothing to do with the police," said Nestor Goubel.
According to the representative, the young man was not shot dead during the demonstration - as activists say - but died in the hospital after a surgical intervention.
According to that official, the police, on Wednesday, acted to "stop a demonstration that did not meet the necessary assumptions for its realization", reinforcing that the corporation "did not use live ammunition".
Nestor Goubel guaranteed that an investigation into police action will not be opened. The police acted with the "use of proportional force" on these types of occasions and "acted in a legal, legitimate and customary manner in these situations," he said.
On Wednesday, the day that the police thwarted an attempted demonstration in Luanda that resulted in several clashes with young people, reports and videos circulated on social networks pointed to the existence of a death, which was denied on the same day at night by the authorities.
However, the next day, a doctor at the Américo Boavida Hospital confirmed that a young university student, 26, who died due to head injuries caused by a "blunt object" that could have been "a stick, a piece of metal, of iron ", rejecting the version of having been hit by a firearm.
The doctor also indicated that the young man was stabilized on arrival at the hospital and underwent surgical intervention, but would eventually die due to cardiac arrest.
However, activists oppose this version, as is the case of Dago Level, who says he witnessed the death of the young man, who claims to have been hit by a bullet.
Speaking to Lusa, Francisco Mapanda, or Dago Level, as he is better known, claimed to have seen the young man lying on the ground, with "the punctured skull" and loss of blood and brain mass.
The demonstration, promoted by the same organizers who had already seen a suppressed protest by the police last month, intended to demand better living conditions and the holding of the first municipal elections in 2021, after having been postponed this year due to the covid-19.
