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Original Post Date: 2008-12-15 Time: 17:00:13 Posted By: Jan
By Lebogang Seale
His head was repeatedly bashed against the police vehicle, he was slapped across the face and his neck was twisted until the pain became unbearable.
This happened to Evarite Kotchi, a Pretoria West resident, who claims police assaulted him because he is a foreigner.
Kotchi, an Ivory Coast citizen who has been living in South Africa for 10 years, said his ordeal started while on his way to a fruit and vegetable market in Pretoria on Wednesday.
“I was walking past the police patrol car when they ordered me to stop.
“They started searching me in a violent way, even pressing my private parts,” he said.
Kotchi said matters became worse when he asked if he had committed a crime.
“They started beating me like a punching bag. One twisted my right arm behind my back while hitting me on my back and head.
“Another slapped me across my face before two others started banging my head against the vehicle and twisting my neck repeatedly,” Kotchi recalled.
As they assaulted him, Kotchi said the police kept on shouting at him: “You guys! We will show you!”
He construed this to mean that he was assaulted for being a foreigner, although they never asked him for his passport or work permit.
At one stage, Kotchi said he felt impelled to fight back, but that he could not because of his respect for the law.
“I just walked away silently, but with a painful and heavy heart,” he said.
As he left, one of the police officers dared him to take their vehicle’s registration number and report the case.
“I still feel pain in my head, and my body is sore and aching,” Kotchi said, adding that the incident had left him traumatised.
“I wonder if this kind of hatred, abuse and brutality on foreigners by the police will ever stop.
“It’s not good for the country’s reputation, especially as South Africa will be hosting the 2010 World Cup,” said Kotchi, who works for the African Diaspora Forum.
Pretoria police spokesperson Captain Louise Reed confirmed that a case of assault had been opened and that police were investigating.