Ex-peace pact delegate arrested

Ex-peace pact delegate arrested

AMBON, Maluku: The police arrested early on Tuesday morning Femmy
Souissa, a former Christian delegate in the Malino peace pact,
for his alleged role in the assault and shooting of a resident in
Ambon last year.

The incident occurred last year but the victim had only
recently dared to report it, said Ambon and Lease Islands Police
chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Leonidas Braksan.

Femmy was arrested in his house in Kudamati subdistrict,
Nusaniwe district, Ambon, said Leonidas. During the arrest, the
police also found an FN gun in the house, said Leonidas. Femmy
was briefly detained by police in May last year for his alleged
involvement in a fire that razed some houses in Waringin area in
Ambon during a commotion in the city on April 25. He was released
as the police lacked evidence.

The Malino peace pact was formally signed in 2002 after
sectarian conflicts rocked the spice island between 1999 and
2002. -- JP