The two police officers had spent the night together standing guard at a checkpoint near the Brarudi company depot in Kayanza province.

The defendant is accused of double murder with premeditation, because according to the public prosecutor's officer at the High Court of Kayanza, Nestor Sindihebura spent the night threatening two colleagues with whom he was standing guard, including the victim police officer, and spent the night at a bar getting drunk.

In turn, the accused pleaded that he did not voluntarily kill the two people but that he made a mistake due to intoxication.

This argument was dismissed outright by the prosecutor's substitute at the High Court of Kayanza, specifying that he had premeditated it since he had already warned them twice that same morning, first at the guard post and at the Uprona monument located in the city of Kayanza.

Closing his arguments, the public prosecutor's officer requested a life sentence for the accused in accordance with article 220 of the Burundian penal code, volume II.

After deliberation, the court found all the public prosecutor's accusations valid and sentenced Nestor Sindihebura to life imprisonment.

By Elvis Irambona