Dear all, this no intention to restart the unpleasant debates on previous similar thread but to share the good news with foreign travellers about progress made with investigations into robberies of foreigners travelling through ORTIA. Unfortunately it seems these robbers arrested are foreigners.
Dear Mods, if this again evolves please bin before it can have a chance to.
Reported News24:
Four held for airport robberies
2007-12-5 20:00
Johannesburg - Four men were arrested in Johannesburg on Wednesday in connection with a string of robberies of tourists at OR Tambo International Airport, police said.
"The men were arrested in Hillbrow and Yeoville around 02:00 this morning," said Sergeant Sanku Tsunke.
"The Johannesburg organised crime unit followed up on information that was given to them, and later established the whereabouts of these men."
Police were investigating several cases in which foreigners were attacked after arriving in South Africa.
"The gang follows their victims from the airport before robbing them...We have recovered suitcases full of clothes and jewellery, as well as cellphones. We found two unlicenced firearms as well," Tsunke said. The men are expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Friday.
