Eugene de Kock, nicknamed the "killer number 1" of apartheid, has been released on Friday after 20 years in prison. He was sentenced in 1996 to two life sentences and 212 years in prison for 89 offenses when he was at the head of a police unit of the racist regime.
According to the Minister of Justice, Michael Masutha, the decision to grant him parole was taken "in the interest of reconciliation."
A decision which does not unanimous.
"Justice is corrupt from the top, denounced Agripa Ndlovu a resident. And although we feel it is wrong to release him because he killed people and others have gone, there's nothing we can do. "
"At some point, we must forgive one another, noted for his part Joseph Dlamini, another resident. But how to grant a pardon? For each camp killed. Some of our black brothers killed many whites and whites also killed. But building a nation, there are problems, it is difficult. "
Eugene de Kock, who had 66 years Thursday, had himself described as "State assassin."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was the Chairman of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation, said that he "deserved to be freed because he had served a lengthy prison sentence, he apologized and had sought the forgiveness of his many victims. "
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