Saturday, October 22, 2011

APPEAL FOR WITNESSES

Do you recognize this man? Police are looking for him to aid in their enquiries. He is Malay or Indonesian. Speaks with an Indonesian accent. Last seen in the vicinity of Mydin in Jalan Masjid India.

Have you seen this man? Police are looking for him for questioning to aid in their enquiries. He is Malay or Indonesian. Speaks with an Indonesian accent. Last seen in the vicinity of Mydin in Jalan Masjid India.

Have you seen this Indian man? Police are looking for him for questioning to aid in their enquiries.

Have you seen this fat Indian man? Police are looking for him for questioning to aid in their enquiries. He is a fat Indian and was taking videos with his iPad. Last seen in the vicinity of Mydin in Jalan Masjid India wielding a metal pole.

Have you seen this fat Indian man? Police are looking for him for questioning to aid in their enquiries. He is a fat Indian and was taking videos with his iPad. Last seen in the vicinity of Mydin in Jalan Masjid India wielding a metal pole.

APPEAL FOR WITNESSES
Incident: ASSAULT, CIVIL COMMOTION & MALICIOUS DAMAGE
Date: September 21, 2011
Time: from 1250 to 1300 hrs
Location: Outside Jakel & CIMB Bank, Jalan Bunos & at Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur

Witnesses are kindly requested to contact
Investigating Officer Sergeant-Major Shukur
Criminal Investigation Department (9th Floor)
Dang Wangi Police Station
H/P: 019-324 5442
Tel: 03-2600 2222

Facts of the Case:
At about 1250 hrs on Friday, October 21 2011, the Victim stopped his motorcar, a Perodua Kelisa in heavy, still and unmoving traffic outside Jakel and CIMB Bank in Jalan Bunos, Kuala Lumpur and asked his daughter to take over the wheel while he went an Indian music stall outside Mydin along Jalan Masjid India to return a broken CD that he had bought the previous day and get a good copy as a replacement.

After getting the replacement, the Victim ran back to his car which was still outside Jakel and CIMB Bank in Jalan Bunos. In the meantime, some passers-by that are not known to the Victim saw him running with the CD and thought he had stolen it. Then an Indonesian or Malay man with an Indonesian accent shouted “Pencuri.” This triggered a civil commotion. As the Victim tried to drive off, between 15 to 20 male assailants (Malays, Indonesians and Indian Malaysians) surrounded the car and starting smashing the front and back windscreens, side-mirrors and bodywork of the car. Among them and instigating them was this Indonesian or Malay man with an Indonesian accent.

The Indian lady from the music stall where the Victim had bought the CD also came when she saw the commotion and tried to explain to the crowd that the Victim had exchanged the CD and was entitled to it. There was a momentary break in the violence and so the Victim decided to drive off to Dang Wangi Police Station to make a Police Report. As they were people still standing in front and surrounding the car, the Victim had to reverse his car in order to get out of the situation.

Then, the violence started again in earnest and both the Victim and his daughter were hit by flying glass from the front windscreen. When the Victim turned right at the junction at Maybank from Jalan Bunos to Jalan Masjid India, the violence got worse with the assailants attacking the car with malicious intent using wooden poles, metal rods and poles and wooden crates. They even tried to puncture the car tyres by throwing broken pieces of wooden crates with nails sticking out.

They did their best to impede the Victim from going to Dang Wangi Police Station to make a Police Report. The victim and his daughter were in fear of their lives and safety. The Victim decided that the best option was to remain in the car and not get out. A fat Indian man with a metal pole started to use it as a battering ram by repeatedly smashing the front car windscreen. This same fat Indian man later took videos of the Victim while blocking his face with his iPad. The victim tried to call the Police (121) from his handphone at 1253 hrs but could not get through.

From 1256 hrs, the Victim managed to take some videos and still photos of the people surrounding the car. The people include the assailants, passers-by, a photographer (a Chinese man with spectacle and wearing a long-sleeved grey shirt) and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) enforcement officers. Initially, they were out-numbered and totally unable to control the crowd who continued damaging the Victim’s car with malicious intent.

Eventually, more DBKL enforcement officers arrived on the scene. By 1302 hrs, they had gained some control and managed to persuade the crowd to disperse and allow the Victim to drive off to Dang Wangi Police Station to make a Police Report. These idiots should have arrested the assailants but had failed to do so. Maybe DBKL enforcement officers are not trained as well as they should.

Upon arrival at the Dang Wangi Police Station, the Victim was accosted by a Malay man who got off a motorcycle, WUQ 8934. He claimed that the Victim had knocked his motorcycle while reversing and wanted to be compensated. The Victim said that the procedure was for him to make a Police Report so that his Insurer can compensate him if his claims can be proven to be true. The Victim was unaware of having knocked the motorcyclist as his back windscreen (at the material time) was shattered and he could not view through it. Furthermore, his side-mirrors were folded back and askew by the assailants.

The motorcyclist refused to make a Police Report and followed the Victim and his daughter into the Dang Wangi Police Station, shouting and screaming swearwords. When he refused to calm down, the Police had to throw him out of the Police Station. He later went to the Tun H.S. Lee Traffic Police Station to make a report (Investigating Officer Sergeant Sagaran). It is believed that the motorcyclist was one of the assailants who hit the Victim’s car with malicious intent and had initiated a civil commotion by instigating others (including the fat Indian man with the iPad) to do the same. The Investigating Officer, Sergeant-Major Shukur, is already in possession of the motorcyclist’s details having obtained it online from Sergeant Sagaran.

Police are also looking for a Chinese man who took photographs of this incident. He can clearly be seen in the video above at 1:14 with spectacles and wearing light grey long-sleeved shirt.

The mob mentality of our society is a sad reflection of our failed criminal justice system that people feel compelled to take the law into their own hands; failure of our national education system and of the Tamil school system for not teaching people basic rights and basic law. The only redeeming factor in this whole episode is that it was a woman ~ a sole lady of courage ~ who faced the mob and acted in our defence. The future of society lies in our mothers, wives and daughters...

The Police already have the details of the owner of WUQ 8934, who I suspect was one of the assailants and had also instigated others to set upon my car.

The fat Indian man with the iPad was the one who used a metal pole as a battering ram to smash my front windscreen. The DBKL enforcement officers where helpless from stopping him. Perhaps, they were inadequately trained. I pray the Polis catch this pundek.

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