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Formal charges of False arrest, Abuse against the Hermanus Public Protection service.
Video - Gerhard Groenewald, Eugene Karreman of Hermanus - formal charges of false arrest, abuse against the Hermanus Public Protection service. A video clip was provided to the local newspaper of how one was beaten up in the back of the police van. The two residents Gerhard Groenewald and Eugene Karreman allege that they were arrested several times on false charges when they were on their way to work, shocked, tear-gassed, verbally abused and beaten up in the back of a police van.There were several neutral witnesses to these various events.Groenewald has now fled Hermanus and lives with his brother in Port Elizabeth - an ex-policeman, saying he fears for his life because the Hermanus police keep harassing and arresting him. Karreman made a video recording on his cell phone of Groenewald being beaten while in the back of the HPP van: VIEW THE CLIP: http://www.dieburger.com/Pages/MultiMedia/Video.aspx?uuid=17.0.95361846 story:
