On the morning of Sunday, May 21, 2024, in Kinshasa, about 50 civilians armed with light rifles, led by a wealthy man named Christian Malanga from the USA and reportedly a friend of Tshisekedi, infiltrated Gombe, Kinshasa.
They allegedely seized the Palais de la Nation, (Presidency). Initially, they attacked the home of Vital Kamerhe, the aspirant Speaker of Parliament, but after failing to capture him, they fled to the Palais de la Nation. Many were neutralized, and Malanga was killed in an operation that lasted two hours.
Following the incidents which many considered as gang attacks, the regime of Tshisekedi through a Military spokesperson and a government spokesperson rushed to issue contradictory statements calling the incident a Coup d’etat. In contrast, many Congolese who were tired of Tshisekedi’s regime believed that Tshisekedi staged that so-called coup d’etat as a diversion to distract the population tired of its incompetence.
It has become a habit to take the Congolese for imbeciles, the assailants did not have a brain for the operation of a coup d’état, given their military objective, and types of equipment, they didn’t even have other external support, you can imagine how 50 untrained civilians can make a coup.
Right after the incident, there was a contradiction in statements made by DRC institutions which shows the complicity. The army says it has foiled an alleged coup d’état, while, Patrick Muyaya declared that it was an attempt to destabilize institutions. The head of MONUSCO promptly and firmly condemned the armed attack.
However, unlike the Congolese authorities, she did not refer to it as an “attempted coup d’état” or a “desire to destabilize institutions, which is also another fact that challenges the narrative of the Tshisekedi regime.
It is only in the DRC that an attempted coup is carried out by only 60 untrained civilians without the involvement of military leaders, without heavy military equipment, but clearly, that was not a coup d’etat only gang violence in a mafia state.
Many Congolese and international observers who followed the crisis in DRC, claimed that Tshisekedi staged the alleged coup to show his people that his army and security forces work professionally.
None could fight them, following how the assailants were captured at the state House, and how the military communicated the issue to the public, shows that Tshisekedi whose security services are considered by the Congolese population as weak and unprofessional wanted to show them that they are able and strong for any threat to the president and the country.
Another fact that shows that it was a staged coup is the way, Vital Kamerhe who was targeted before appeared calmly and freely in a concert at a stadium acting like nothing happened, he hadn’t even said anything despite the misleading tweet of his wife.
There is no indication that this banditry aimed to seize power. This joke in bad taste is a lack of respect for the Congolese people.
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