Serang Mobil Polisi, Polri Akui Tembak Mati Pengawal Habib Rizieq

Indonesian Police Kill 6 Supporters of Firebrand Cleric

Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi


Serang Mobil Polisi, Polri Akui Tembak Mati Pengawal Habib Rizieq
Habib Rizieq telah dijadwalkan untuk dimintai keterangan pada Senin pagi atas dugaan pelanggaran peraturan kesehatan virus corona ketika resepsi pernikahan putrinya pada 14 November. [Foto: Associated Press/MailOnline]

POLISI menembak mati pengawal yang disebut Kepolisian RI [Polri] sebagai laskar khusus Front Pembela Islam [FPI] pada Senin dini hari [7/12] yang mengawal Habib Riziq Shihab, yang kembali ke Indonesia, November, setelah bermukim di Arab Saudi selama tiga tahun, setelah tuntutan pidana terhadapnya dicabut.

Kapolda Metro Jaya, Muhammad Fadil Imran mengatakan polisi mengikuti sebuah mobil yang membawa 10 pendukung Rizieq Shihab, pemimpin FPI. Para pengikut menyerang polisi dengan senjata dan pedang, sehingga mengancam keselamatan petugas.

"Petugas kemudian mengambil tindakan tegas dan terukur sehingga enam orang tewas dari kelompok yang terdiri dari 10 orang," katanya

Dalam kesempatan terpisah, Ketua Umum FPI Ahmad Shabri Lubis mengatakan bahwa Pemimpin FPI Habib Rizieq dan keluarganya sedang menuju ke suatu tempat nuntuk menyampaikan khotbah dan bahwa penjaga yang ikut dengan mereka telah ditembak.

"Dalam perjalanan menuju lokasi dakwah, rombongan dicegat oleh orang tak dikenal yang kami yakini kuat sebagai bagian dari kelompok operasional untuk mengintai dan mencelakakannya. Polisi kemudian berhenti dan melakukan penembakan terhadap pengawal keluarga," kata Lubis.

Kapolda Fadil Imran mengatakan Habib Rizieq telah dijadwalkan untuk dimintai keterangan, Senin pagi [7/12] atas dugaan pelanggaran karantina kesehatan pandemi Covid-19, setelah menggelar resepsi pernikahan putrinya pada 14 November, dan Polri mengaku telah menerima informasi tentang rencana mobilisasi massal para pendukung di Mabes Polri Jakarta.

Hingga Senin malam, Habib Rizieq tidak muncul untuk dimintai keterangan, panggilan polisi kedua dari jadwal pertama pada Selasa pekan lalu seperti dikutip Associated Press yang dilansir MailOnline.

INDONESIAN police fatally shot six followers of a cleric who returned last month from three years of exile in Saudi Arabia after criminal charges against him were dropped on Monday morning [7/12].

Jakarta Police Chief Muhammad Fadil Imran said police were following a car carrying 10 supporters Rizieq Shihab, leader of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). The followers attacked the police with guns and swords, threatening the safety of the officers.

"The officers then took firm and measured action so that six died from the group of 10 people," he said.

On a separate occasion, FPI Chairman Ahmad Shabri Lubis said that FPI leader Habib Rizieq and his family were going to a place to deliver a sermon and that the guards who were with them had been shot.

"On their way to the sermon location, the group was intercepted by unknown people that we strongly believed were part of an operational group to stalk and harm him. Those unknown people stopped and did the shooting of the family guards," Lubis said in a statement.

Imran said police had been scheduled to interrogate Shihab on Monday morning over an alleged violation of coronavirus health regulations during his daughter´s wedding reception on Nov. 14, and they had received information about plans for a mass mobilization of his supporters at Jakarta police headquarters during his questioning.

As of Monday evening, Shihab had not appeared for the questioning, his second police summons after an earlier one last Tuesday.