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Mozambique: South African Tourist Detained for Brutal Assault

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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)

7 January 2008
Posted to the web 7 January 2008

Maputo

The Mozambican police have detained a South African tourist named Pierre Daniel Van Tonder for a brutal assault against a 22 year old Mozambican in the tourist resort on Ponta do Ouro, in the far south of the country.

According to a report in the weekly paper "Domingo", the incident happened on New Years Day in the Café Del Mar discotheque. The 32 year old Van Tonder tried to jump the queue for the men's bathrooms, and when the young Mozambican (whose name was not given in the report) protested, Van Tonder attacked him.

Accompanied by three other South Africans, Van Tonder is accused of dragging the youth into the bathroom, where he beat him so severely that he broke his jaw in three places.

The Mozambican victim was transferred immediately to Maputo Central Hospital, but the damage done to his face was so bad, that he was then flown to a clinic in South Africa for surgery to reconstruct his shattered jaw.

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The police arrested Van Tonder, and he was taken to the southern city of Matola, where he is awaiting trial.

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