Police in Ireland have confirmed they are “making enquiries” into claims a man on Interpol’s most wanted list is living under asylum seeker status in Dublin.
An Garda Síochána told The Epoch Times that it was aware of claims by Zimbabwean authorities that Peter Dube—accused of three murders—is living in refugee accommodation in the Irish city.
Dube, understood to be in his late 30s, also faces an attempted murder charge.
The Zimbabwean is said to have fled his home country to South Africa before obtaining a false passport and travelling to Ireland.
He is accused of shooting dead two women and a man and attempting to kill another woman in 2021.
Zimbabwe police believe Dube fled the country in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
Now Interpol has issued a red notice—a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition—in a bid to have Dube returned to the country to face the serious charges.
“Peter Dube, who was 35 years old at the time of the incident, was a businessman operating Mixed Car Sale in Gweru and he was also into gold dealing,” he told Zimbabwe’s Sunday Mail.
“The incident occurred on April 21, 2021, around 8pm, in Gweru, and he disappeared on the same night.
Gun Attacks
Nyathi said police were putting their efforts towards having Dube returned to the country.Asked by The Epoch Times if it was assisting Interpol in detaining Dube, a Garda spokesperson said, “We are making enquiries on this matter and hope to revert with a response in due course.”
According to the Sunday Mail, police said Dube carried out the killings after confronting his second wife with her suspected lover outside her flat in Gweru’s central business district.
He fatally shot the man, named as car dealer Shelton Chinango before turning the gun on his second wife’s best friend, Gamuchirai Mudungwe, the newspaper reported.
Mudungwe was shot in the chest and died instantly.
He went on to shoot his second wife Nyasha Nharingo and her sister Nyaradzo Nharingo.
The two sisters were rushed to hospital, where Nyaradzo Nharingo died from her injuries.
Dube is said to have immediately fled the country.
However, the newspaper states he was not located.
The reports come amid growing tensions between the Irish government and some communities over asylum seeker accommodation amid a national housing crisis.
Attacks and Blockades
Last week tents were burned in a makeshift refugee camp in Dublin city centre following a tense stand off between anti-immigraton protestors and those supporting asylum seekers.Irish Premier Leo Varadkar said he was “shocked and horrified” at the attacks.
Varadkar’s comments came as Ireland’s integration minister Roderic O’Gorman pledged to make available hundreds of extra beds to asylum seekers who have no accommodation and are sleeping rough.
As of Friday, around 480 international protection applicants were without accommodation in Ireland.
Many of those migrants are sleeping in tents in makeshift camps on city streets.
Two of the camps in Dublin city centre were targeted by anti-immigration protesters in recent days, with parts of tents and furniture burned at one of them.
O’Gorman confirmed on Monday that Ireland was responding to an “unprecedented situation” and was currently accommodating 84,000 people—comprising Ukrainian refugees and international asylum applicants—compared with 8,500 people at the start of last year.
In Co Clare, locals have been continuing throughout the week to blockade the entrance to a hotel recently allocated to house asylum seekers.
It involves parking cars and tractors across the road that leads to the hotel.
Protesters said that this was to stop a second bus that is expected to bring another 30 asylum seekers to the three holiday homes on the grounds of the hotel building.
Speaking on Thursday, Varadkar said the government was attempting to engage with the villagers to ease their concerns.
“I think it is important that people’s concerns are listened to, that they’re provided information, that communication takes place, but also it’s very important to be clear as a government, no community, nobody, has a veto on who should or should not live in your area and we can’t allow that,” he said.
Approximately 480 asylum seekers have been left without accommodation due to a severe lack of housing supply in Ireland, resulting in some people sleeping in tents.
Disused military sites, refurbished office buildings, and old school buildings have been used to house refugees and those seeking asylum, the government has previously confirmed.
