The police are preventing the concentration of some demonstrators in the area of the Santa Ana cemetery, in Luanda, and in several neighborhoods groups of young people who try to force their way through are removed with tear gas, Lusa said at the scene.
In the area, several groups of young people are trying to force their way through, challenging the police with chants and requests for non-violence, and in Catete's stay, about half an hour ago, other demonstrators began to gather and were dispersed to the interior of the neighborhoods.
Among the wounded is the young activist Nito Alves, one of the members of the group of young revolutionaries known for 15 + 2, arrested and tried in 2017, according to images posted on social networks.
Reports from activists indicate the arrest of several protesters.
Speaking to Lusa, the spokesman for the Luanda provincial command of the National Police, Nestor Goubel, did not confirm the existence of detainees, referring later to a statement by the authorities, stressing that acts of intimidation, vandalism, disorder are underway, burning tires, which "the police are trying to contain".
"There is total disrespect until the date of independence and the Presidential decree, but there will be an official pronouncement later on," he said.
Nestor Goubel stressed that the use of tear gas is a means of dispersing the police, reiterating that the demonstrators are stoning, causing confrontations with the authorities and shouting insults, "which the police have been able to contain in a pedagogical way".
Angola marks today 45 years of the country's independence, a holiday in which a demonstration is scheduled to take place, organized by a group of young activists, with the aim of demanding better living conditions and that a date be set for the first municipal elections. .
The Government of the Province of Luanda has banned this demonstration, citing several reasons, one of which is the failure to comply with the Presidential Decree on the state of public calamity, which prevents gatherings of more than five people on the streets, as a measure to prevent and combat spread of covid-19.
