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    Default Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    Of course, appologies if this was posted before, and it is only in Afrikaans. There are signs of forceful entry, why then can he be in trouble for just defending himself?

    http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2015-0...arskuwingskote

    Boer in hegtenis ná waarskuwingskote

    Deur André Damons Donderdag 29 Januarie 2015 09:22




    So lyk Prieur Du Plessis se deur nadat mans dit met ’n kapmes en knopkierie stukkend geslaan het ná ’n stryery. Foto: verskaf



    ’n Boer en sakeman van Ficksburg is deur 20 swaargewapende polisiebeamptes in hegtenis geneem nadat hy ’n waarskuwingskoot afgevuur het toe twee mans na bewering sy huis aangeval en gedreig het om sy gesin dood te maak.
    Die mans het glo ook sy 18-jarige verstandelik gestremde dogter rondgeruk en op die grond neergegooi.
    Prieur du Plessis (46), ’n pa van twee verstandelik gestremde kinders, het Maandagmiddag ’n waarskuwingskoot afgevuur toe ’n pa en seun, gewapen met ’n knopkierie en ’n kapmes, na bewering op hom afgestorm het. Hy is later die dag in hegtenis geneem toe die mans ’n klag van poging tot moord teen hom ingedien het.
    Du Plessis se prokureur, Jonker Botha, het reeds Dinsdagaand borgtog by die Ficksburg-polisiekantoor gereël, maar die polisie wou hom nie laat gaan nie. Hy is eers die volgende dag op borgtog van R500 vrygelaat nadat hy op mindere aanklagte van die nalatige afvuur van ’n vuurwapen en die roekelose ingevaarstelling van ’n mens in die hof verskyn het.
    Botha het Woensdag gesê sy kliënt is voornemens om ’n siviele eis teen die polisie in te stel weens onregmatige aanhouding.
    Du Plessis het Maandag omstreeks 17:00 op sy plaas Brooklyn met mans, wat ’n huis by hom huur, gestry omdat hulle hom geld skuld. “Toe ons begin stry, het ek die mans gevra om my erf te verlaat. Hulle het my gestremde dogter rondgeruk en op die grond neergegooi. Ek het haar gegryp en die huis ingehardloop,” sê Du Plessis.
    Die mans het sy vensters stukkend geslaan en aanhoudend geskree hulle gaan sy kinders en familie doodmaak. Hy het sy pistool gegryp, uitgegaan en ’n waarskuwingskoot afgevuur toe die mans op hom afstorm. Die koeël het die agterruit van die mans se motor getref.
    Sowat 20 polisielede het hom ’n uur later in die dorp in hegtenis geneem terwyl hy ’n vergadering by ’n vriend se huis bygewoon het.
    “Ek het besluit om die volgende oggend die voorval aan te meld. Ek wou nooit daardie mans skiet nie.
    “As ek hulle wou skiet, kon ek, maar ek wou hulle net afskrik. Ek moes iets doen en het gedink as ek hul ruit uitskiet, sal hulle vlug.”
    Kapt. Phumelelo Dhlamini, polisiewoordvoerder, sê Du Plessis kon nie Dinsdag op borgtog vrygelaat word nie, omdat die ondersoekbeampte steeds besig was met die ondersoek.
    Hy het bevestig dat Du Plessis klagte van intimidasie, aanranding en opsetlike saakbeskadiging teen die twee mans ingedien het en sê hulle is Woensdag in hegtenis geneem. Die mans, onderskeidelik 50 en 30 jaar oud, is dieselfde dag op waarskuwing vrygelaat en moet weer Donderdag in die hof verskyn.
    Phaladi Shuping, woordvoerder van die NVG in die Vrystaat, sê die klag van poging tot moord teen Du Plessis is verander nadat die aanklaer die dossier gelees en besluit het dit sou moeilik wees om te bewys.

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    Underlines the importance of being the first to report a crime and lay a charge. If you shoot at people, and don't report it, you may be up shit creek looking for where you put that darned paddle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manservant View Post
    Underlines the importance of being the first to report a crime and lay a charge. If you shoot at people, and don't report it, you may be up shit creek looking for where you put that darned paddle.
    Very true! Whenever SHTF, make sure you phone first and get that precious IR number from 10111. Whether right or wrong, the first one to report is usually seen as the complainant and their version will hold more weight with the responding SAPS members than any other.

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    Agree with MS and John (thanks for the tip on IR number). What does irk me is that "they" were released on the same day.

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    After this incident of him and his daughters being attacked. In such away that their lives was threatened. And he had to fire a warning shot.
    He did not feel it necessary to report it to police. He rather went to his friends house. For a Meeting? probably meant visiting. And felt he wanted to report it the next day.
    That's very relaxed about it.

    Also the warning shot was through the vehicle window of these guys. So a person could think that they might have been in the car busy leaving.
    Why then fire at them while they are leaving.

    Don't think this farmer is telling the complete story.

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    Quote Originally Posted by shooty View Post
    After this incident of him and his daughters being attacked. In such away that their lives was threatened. And he had to fire a warning shot.
    He did not feel it necessary to report it to police. He rather went to his friends house. For a Meeting? probably meant visiting. And felt he wanted to report it the next day.
    That's very relaxed about it.

    Also the warning shot was through the vehicle window of these guys. So a person could think that they might have been in the car busy leaving.
    Why then fire at them while they are leaving.

    Don't think this farmer is telling the complete story.
    Yup agree why fire a warning shot through the car window to get them to leave ?

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    Quote Originally Posted by shooty View Post
    Don't think this farmer is telling the complete story.
    That may be true, but people don't trust the police anymore, that's probably why he went to his neighbor first, to warn him about these guys.


    How many police does it take to screw in a light bulb ? No idea, but it takes 20 to arrest a single Boer :
    Quote Originally Posted by PCfanatic View Post
    Sowat 20 polisielede het hom ’n uur later in die dorp in hegtenis geneem terwyl hy ’n vergadering by ’n vriend se huis bygewoon het.

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    Here's an updare on the story :

    http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitr...orts/view/3143

    Farmer Prieur du Plessis, 45, arrested by 20 armed cops after firing a warning shot at blacks threatening to kill his family:
    January 31, 2015 A white Afrikaner farmer and businessman from Ficksburg was arrested by 20 heavily armed police officers after a warning shot was fired by the farmer when two men allegedly attacked his house and threatened to kill his family.
    The two men also pushed and threw his 18-year-old mentally disabled daughter to the ground.
    Prieur du Plessis (46) a father of two mentally handicapped children, fired a warning shot on Monday afternoon when a father and son armed with a club and a machete allegedly stormed him. He was later arrested when the men filed a charge of attempted murder against him.
    Du Plessis’s attorney, Jonker Botha already arranged bail on Tuesday night at the Ficksburg police station but the police did not want to release him. He was only released the next day on bail of R500 after he appeared in court on lesser charges of negligent discharge of a firearm and reckless endangering of a person.
    Botha said on Wednesday his client intends to make a civil claim against the police for being wrongfully detained.
    Du Plessis was in an argument with people renting his house because he confronted them for not paying rent. He asked them to leave his property on his farm, Brooklyn.
    The men smashed his windows and shouted they would kill his children and family.
    Read more at http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitr...48zcV6hrzRw.99

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    It boggles my mind that he didn't report it to the SAPS immediately.

    If somebody threw my daughter around, smashed my house's windows, attempted to assault me, and then threaten the life of my family, I would under no circumstances think it prudent to only report it the next day.

    Sowat 20 polisielede het hom ’n uur later in die dorp in hegtenis geneem terwyl hy ’n vergadering by ’n vriend se huis bygewoon het. “Ek het besluit om die volgende oggend die voorval aan te meld. Ek wou nooit daardie mans skiet nie.
    “As ek hulle wou skiet, kon ek, maar ek wou hulle net afskrik. Ek moes iets doen en het gedink as ek hul ruit uitskiet, sal hulle vlug.”
    I mean, WTF dude?

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    Default Re: Farmer arrested for shooting warning shot

    A white Afrikaner farmer
    that simply doesnt sit right with me, imho. makes him sound like a white supremacist.

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