Duo in Dubai charged with mutual assault

A Dubai-based man has been accused of assaulting a western visitor after he thought he was a thief stealing from a boat in Dubai.

According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, the 36-yearold westerner visitor was aboard the boat at the Dubai Canal with the defendant. The visitor was allegedly carrying bottles from the boat to a car when the 28-yearold defendant saw him and thought he was a thief.

“The cook in the boat asked me to take the bottles out of the boat. The defendant thought I was stealing them,” the visitor said in official records.