Gatvol Capetonian takes JP Smith on
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READY FOR ACTION: G@tvol Capetonian’s Adams READY FOR ACTION: G@tvol Capetonian’s Adams
The leader of Gatvol Capetonian has laid charges of intimidation against the City’s sheriff, JP Smith.
Fadiel Adams was at the forefront of a protest last week, calling on the City of Cape Town to provide houses for backyard dwellers.
But Smith laid criminal charges of incitement of violence and is suing G@tvol Capetonian and Adams for damages to infrastructure during the Total Shutdown Protest, amounting to
R1.5 million.
This after protesters in Delft, Hout Bay, Mitchells Plain, Grassy Park, Atlantis and other areas burnt tyres in the streets and damaged traffic lights, among others.
By Wednesday, Adams had not been arrested, and instead arrived at the Mitchells Plain Police Station at 10am with supporters to open a case of intimidation against Smith.
“He is trying to intimidate me by saying he is coming for me with the law,” said Adams.
“I asked for peaceful
protests and nobody from the G@tvol movement was part of the violence.
“There is no case against me and there is no proof because I did not incite this violence.
“His charges are a joke. It will be nullified by the prosecutor and we will then proceed with a suit of malicious slander against him.”
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Meanwhile, Adams is due to appear at the Bishop Lavis Magistrates’ Court on Thursday on charges of intimidation and assault brought against him by Bonteheuwel Ward councillor Angus Mckenzie.
After Mckenzie critisized the shutdown, Adams made a video in which he threatened to moer the councillor.
He also said Mckenzie had run over a six-year-old and stated that the reason apartheid hero Ashley Kriel was murdered was because of people like Mckenzie’s father, Patrick Mckenzie.
At the time, Patrick had served in the apartheid administration.