Isabel Genade (73) assaulted, husband also robbed at gunpoint by uniformed black men, Wessel Street, Parow, Cape Dec 3 2010
Parow, Cape province – An elderly Afrikaans couple, both in their seventies, were attacked at 1pm, in broad daylight by two black males who were dressed in full police uniform and rang their front-door bell. Mr Isabel Genade, 73 and her 75-year-old husband let their attackers in the front door because the uniformed men claimed that the couple’s ‘car had been stolen’ and they were ‘investigating’.
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When does the police register an assault during a house-robbery? Here’s a clue:
Journalist Kobus Pretorius reported in Die Burger Afrikaans daily from the working-class Parow suburb in the Tygerberg region that the working-class Afrikaans couple had been tied up and the wife beaten - according to Die Burger journalist’s well-sourced information.
•However Warrant-officer Jacques Mostert of Parow denied the beating – instead claiming that the old lady was ‘not assaulted, she just got a blow against her shoulder-blades and has a knob on her head… The husband is uninjured.’
He wouldn’t even admit that the attackers had been dressed in full-dress police-uniforms, saying “the investigation is at a sensitive stage…’
The couple’s house-contents were left completely alone: the only ‘stolen’ item was Mrs Isabel Genade’s handbag containing bank-cards and some cash and jewellery. Neighbours in the working-class Afrikaner suburb. questioned by the journalist, said they were unaware of the attack against the elderly couple.
•One man said: ‘we nearly never have the police patrol the street. I have chased away suspicious people who were hanging around.’ http://www.dieburger.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Senior-burgers-in-huis-oorval-20101203
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