Police accused of failing crime-ridden Muldersdrift
September 11 2012 at 09:00am
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Four months before that incident, two
armed men had attacked Biccard’s tenant, Axel Schmoor.
He was shot at eight times by men who
allegedly just showed up and announced they were going to kill him. A bullet
hit him in the leg.
A week later, he arrived back from
hospital to find the cartridges used during the attack scattered around the
house.
He said burglars had ransacked his
house and stolen items worth about R60 000.
Schmoor then moved out, a mere seven
months after he first occupied the house.
Klause Schroter, 72, said he has twice
fallen victim to crime.
The first time, he said, he was with
his 76-year-old partner, Sheila Winter, when unknown men attacked them in their
house.
They beat Schroter to a pulp and
wrapped cables around the couple’s necks, while demanding money.
Schroter said he gave them R10 000 that
he had just received from selling his livestock.
They wanted more, and when he indicated
he could not, they began throttling Winter.
“One man pulled the cord from one side
of my neck, while another pulled from the other side until I fainted,” Winter
said.
The men fled with Winter’s car. Police
later found it abandoned in another part of Muldersdrift.
The nightmare was, however, not over
for the couple.
Six months later, Schroter said he
again discovered people in his house.
Although they beat him up, a fed-up
Schroter fought back and the thugs fled.
Another resident, Peter Deetlefs, said
he had also moved out of Muldersdrift after nearly being shot – one of many
hair-raising encounters he had experienced on Clinic Road.
No one has been arrested for any of
these and other attacks.
Residents complained that the police
seemed unmoved about the situation.
The Star sent questions to the police
about the incidents.
Provincial spokeswoman Captain Pinky
Tsinyane said they could not comment yet as they still had to get information,
not only on the recent cases but on previous incidents too.
