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“It’s hard right now,” said a woman who would give only her first name, Leticia, as she and her husband sold power drills and other construction tools out of their blue van.

“It may be an old hammer, but we might use it with the flashy new power drills,” says Prevandar.

He relates that Mbandaka has no permanent power supply, only a few diesel generators and hardly any infrastructure -- not even a power drill to install the flood level marker.

Gangs of thieves coordinate to steal many millions of dollars of merchandise - often perfume, cosmetics, toiletries or power drills.

He testified that Mr. Naccache had been holding a power drill in a menacing way and yelling threats at him.