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Original Post Date: 2008-03-07 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: JoAn

Submitted by Adriana Stuijt:

Afrikaner businessman Etienne Kruger, who was arrested and dumped into a police cell overnight for ‘refusing to bribe a cop’ has had enough.

He is packing up his business with its 85 employees and leaving the country of his birth forever.

Etienne Kruger of Erasmusrand was arrested after he had helped in the arrest of a suspected burglar at a neighbour’s house

Kruger told Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper in Pretoria that a police guard at the house of his neighbour, Home-Affairs minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, had tried to stop police from arresting him, and had also tried to calm the situation down, as the guard had witnessed the entire event and knew the Afrikaner had been totally innocent of any wrong-doing.

The drama occurred in front of Kruger’s home which is very near the Home Affairs minister’s residence in Pretoria.

Kruger said it all started after his family had spotted two suspected burglars while they were climbing across a neighbour’s wall and immediately alerted the security guards.

“My wife pushed the alarm button (of ADT-security company). My son Tiaan and I ran to the street and went and stood on the corner because we knew these men had gone to that corner erf,’ he said.

An ADT-security guard was on the scene very quickly and Kruger said he still tried to catch one of the men, who however ran away.

Another ADT-guard then showed up and they, together with his son Tiaan, then helped catch the other suspect hiding in the back yard.

This ‘arrested’ man now claims to be a gardener who slept there – and who now (falsely) claims that Mr Kruger had ‘assaulted’ him.

The ADT-guard had asked Mr Kruger to ‘hold on to the arrested man’ while the guard called police and for reinforcements on the radio. “I walked with this arrested man to the Minister’s home to ask the guard there for handcuffs but they didn’t have any,’ he said.

As soon as the police arrived, the ADT-guards had left – but had left a note in his mailbox saying ‘one suspect arrested’.

With the ADT-guards gone, this suspect then claimed to the police that Kruger had ‘assaulted him where he had slept in the garden’ – demanding that Kruger take him to his own doctor and a private hospital for treatment – but Kruger indignantly refused and told the police the man was lying.

That’s when one of the policemen told Kruger that if the Afrikaner paid him a R5,000 bribe, he would ‘not lodge a charge against him.’

Kruger refused, was arrested in front of his family and thrown into the police van together with the suspected burglar and driven at breakneck-speed to Brooklyn police station.

The police guard at the Home Affairs Minister’s home – who had witnessed everything – kept telling the police during the arrest of Mr Kruger that ‘this is wrong, you are arresting the wrong man…’ but the cop refused to listen.

The cops ‘drove very roughly and I hurt my leg during the ride,’ Kruger said. Mr Kruger was released at noon yesterday on ‘warning’. There have been no charges lodged against him, but police captain Phillip Lekoantsane told Beeld that the 53-year-old ‘complainant’ — i.e. the suspected burglar arrested by the ADT-security guards — claimed that he was a gardener at a house in the same street and that this man ‘had a small cut to his neck’. He also denied that Kruger had been asked to pay a R5,000 bribe. The case is now being investigated, he said.

Kruger said he’s now had enough.

He is going to close down his business with its 85 employees, pack up his family and leave the country of his birth – forever.

“I give up,” he said.

ADT-security company spokesmen said they were still ‘investigating’ and can’t comment as yet.

Source: http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2283589,00.html