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Original Post Date: 2010-02-25 Time: 08:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Murray Williams
Staff Writer
Prominent businessman, community leader and former ANC provincial leader Chris Nissen and his family are traumatised after being robbed in a daring smash-and-grab at their Cape Town home.
Last night Nissen explained how he had confronted two men who had bashed their way into his Rondebosch home early yesterday.
Nissen was in bed when the house alarm went off.
“I thought it was my boy, Matthew, letting the dog out,” he said.
“I shouted for the dog, but nothing happened.”
Concerned, Nissen got up and began to make his way downstairs to investigate.
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“As I went halfway down the stairs, I heard a crash in the dining room and saw two men entering the house.”
They had hit the double French doors hard and had forced them open, apparently unconcerned about the commotion they were making.
“Everything inside the doors went crashing,” Nissen said.
He said he had shouted at the pair.
“One went into the sitting room. I kept on shouting at them. I was very wary, I was unarmed.
“I could have ended up in the morgue.
“But I didn’t know what was happening. When I heard the noise, my instinct was to protect my family.”
Upstairs were his wife, Charlene, two sons and teenage daughter.
“Within seconds they grabbed my briefcase and the board documents of Sea Harvest (of which Nissen is a director), an X-Box and other equipment.
“I shouted and shouted, and they rushed out and escaped over the wall,” said Nissen.
He said his family was “very traumatised”.
“The police were telling me that this is the latest tactic, that they smash in when you’re in your home, and people then lock themselves in the room and wait for the police.
“Meanwhile they clean out your house.”
Nissen said the incident was the latest in a string of crimes committed against his family.
“My wife and her sister were hijacked at gunpoint outside our house two years ago. They took the car, cellphones and jewellery.
“And we have been burgled three times,” he said.
The burglary came at a time when the family was feeling vulnerable.
“We just buried Charlotte’s mother two weeks ago. She died here. The family is still in mourning – can you imagine if she was still here?”
Nissen said he had asked to meet the local police station commissioner to voice his dismay.
“A friend has had to leave the area and others are leaving too. Somehow the system is not working,” Nissen said.
At the time of going to press this morning, police said no suspects had been arrested.