Good afternoon. The son of President Filipe Nyusi was involved in a car accident in Maputo City on Friday morning, in which two children under the age of seven were hit and his luxury Mercedes Benz-AMG was damaged. It is not known exactly what condition Florindo Nyusi was in after the accident, as he was evacuated from the scene, possibly for his own personal safety, and did not provide any assistance to the injured children. People who were at the scene tried in vain to block the car in which Florindo was being taken so that he would take responsibility.
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The crash attracted the attention of the media and the public, not only because it involved one of the president's sons, but perhaps also because of another crime Florindo Nyusi was apparently committing: "abandoning the injured". According to Mozambican law, any driver who voluntarily abandons the victims of an accident he or she has caused, in whole or in part, faces up to two years in prison. As the state news agency’s English service pointed out, he was a hit-and-run driver.
