Passenger smuggler jailed
DUBAI: A passenger smuggler who kicked a pedestrian for directing a commuter to a nearby bus station was on Wednesday jailed for one year plus deportation.
The unemployed Asian man, 26, thrust a violent kick on the Egyptian victim –an employee, 23- and caused him a 20 per cent reproductive system deformity, as per a forensic examination report.
After the kick he threatened him saying, “If you tell the police about it, you will see. I am always lurking at this place.” This happened at around 11:30pm on Feb.7, prosecutors told the Criminal Court.
The victim complained that he was beside Al Ghubaiba bus station waiting for a friend when a countryman arrived seeking to know how he could reach Al Ain City. “I pointed him to the buses.
“Within seconds, the defendant grabbed me by the arm and confronted me in broken Arabic. He demanded me to tell him why I had directed the countryman to the buses,” explained the victim.
“He insisted I had ruined his business because he was about to transport him to the city instead of him going by bus. I told him I had simply answered the countryman’s request for the direction.”
The victim added that he told the defendant to release his arm. “I pulled it away from him,” he said. All of a sudden, the defendant thrust a kick on his body. “I collapsed under severe pain.”
THE DEFENDANT LED AFTER warning THE victim that in case he complained to the police he would see. The victim remained rolling on the ground in excruciating pain. He contacted ambulance services.
An ambulance rushed him to a hospital. He underwent surgery and part of his reproductive glands had to BE removed. From THERE, HE iled A complaint at Al Rifa’a Police Station.
An Emirati corporal said investigators traced and nabbed the defendant. He confessed and contended that a heated argument erupted between him and the victim and they exchanged blows.
“He was assaulting me when I kicked him,” he reportedly argued. Police Organised A PARADE. THE victim IDENTIIED him as the man who kicked him for ruining his and his cohorts’ business.