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Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises, Reuters reports. The attacks happened after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, and quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Police also detained 14 purported victims, who claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs – The men have since been released.
Kinshasa’s police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, said:
You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We’ve had a number of attempted lynchings. [...] You see them covered in marks after being beaten.
I’m tempted to say it’s one huge joke
But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it’s become tiny or that they’ve become impotent. To that I tell them, ‘How do you know if you haven’t gone home and tried it?’
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.
Alain Kalala (29), who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station confirmed:
It’s real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny
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