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othersideofwindFuck! Получила письмо от коллеги Саши из Тринидада:
hi
this link takes you to something horrible that
happened to my brother.
just to say as a journalist covering this heinous
crime for the past five years in my country, i never
thought it would happen so close to home
but it has truly made me feel how the victims feel.
bye
sasha
Если кратко - в прошлые выходные у нее похитили брата. Под катом - статья из местной газеты.
К счастью, все закончилось хорошо. Но лучше б этого не случалось...
Brother of CCN reporter kidnapped
Sunday, March 11th 2007
"RENNIE is not a millionaire. They targeting ordinary people now."
So said TV6 senior journalist Sasha Mohammed, sister of kidnap victim Rennie Mohammed, 37, as she spoke of the kidnapping ordeal her family went through in the predawn hours of yesterday morning.
Mohammed was rescued by police hours after his abduction.
"Rennie is very traumatised. We are very traumatised," Sasha said when she spoke yesterday with the Sunday Express.
"I can't get this out of my mind. You know what it is to get up at three o'clock in the morning and hear that your brother was kidnapped?
"I could imagine what the Vindra Naipaul family going through."
Rennie works in the accounts department at the President's House in St Ann's.
He is also the public relations officer with the Shiv Shakti Dance Company.
He had gone liming with friends in Port of Spain and when he left them early he asked the driver of a white Corolla hatchback plying for hire in the vicinity of the San Juan taxi-stand on Independence Square, Port of Spain, if he was available for hire, according to his sister.
The Corolla was later discovered by police to a be a stolen vehicle, she added.
The driver, whom the Sunday Express understands was deported from the United States, and who was the apparent leader of the kidnapping operation, said yes and agreed to take him to Aranjuez where the siblings live.
Rennie sat in the front passenger seat and when the driver picked up another man at Henry Street, he became suspicious and said he wanted out, his sister said.
But it was too late and the man who entered last placed an object, thought to be a gun, to the back of his head and told him, "You not getting out, you staying right here."
He was then blindfolded and taken to an unknown location.
The kidnappers made Rennie call persons on his phone but many didn't answer at that early time in the morning.
"Like nobody care for your life. You going to die tonight," Rennie was threatened.
They tapped and hit him, his sister said.
Continuing the account, Sasha Mohammed said he eventually got onto a close friend who negotiated with the kidnappers for her brother's life.
That friend initially told them she only had $500 and when they threatened to send her Rennie's head in a box, she haggled the $10,000 down-payment request to $3,000 and agreed to where the cash would be dropped.
Unknown to the kidnappers though, Sasha's friend's husband was a police officer and he contacted the Anti-Kidnapping Squad (AKS).
So when an apparently homeless man approached the bin where the money was dropped off and took the money, he was immediately seized by the police.
He later led the police to the other two kidnappers and both were arrested, Sasha said.
At 2.30 a.m., three heavily armed police officers from the Barataria Police Station clad in plain clothes had knocked on the door of the Aranjuez apartment where Sasha and her brother live.
When they told her they were investigating a report of her brother being kidnapped she said she immediately went into shock.
First instinct caused her to call her brother's phone and when an unknown man with an American accent answered she said she asked for Rennie saying her car was shut down and she needed help.
When she called back, as instructed by the kidnappers, they tried to get money from her but then she was told that the friend was handling the situation.
Apparently before they were arrested, the kidnappers called the friend and told her where Rennie had been released.
He was found by the police in some bushes in Curepe and later examined at the Mount Hope Hospital.
Sasha told the Sunday Express that he was physically safe but "tremendously shaken".
"I've seen almost everything there is to see and gone through everything else there is to go through in Trinidad and Tobago," she said.
She said the officers at the Barataria Police Station were very co-operative and she thanked the AKS for their diligence.
hi
this link takes you to something horrible that
happened to my brother.
just to say as a journalist covering this heinous
crime for the past five years in my country, i never
thought it would happen so close to home
but it has truly made me feel how the victims feel.
bye
sasha
Если кратко - в прошлые выходные у нее похитили брата. Под катом - статья из местной газеты.
К счастью, все закончилось хорошо. Но лучше б этого не случалось...
Brother of CCN reporter kidnapped
Sunday, March 11th 2007
"RENNIE is not a millionaire. They targeting ordinary people now."
So said TV6 senior journalist Sasha Mohammed, sister of kidnap victim Rennie Mohammed, 37, as she spoke of the kidnapping ordeal her family went through in the predawn hours of yesterday morning.
Mohammed was rescued by police hours after his abduction.
"Rennie is very traumatised. We are very traumatised," Sasha said when she spoke yesterday with the Sunday Express.
"I can't get this out of my mind. You know what it is to get up at three o'clock in the morning and hear that your brother was kidnapped?
"I could imagine what the Vindra Naipaul family going through."
Rennie works in the accounts department at the President's House in St Ann's.
He is also the public relations officer with the Shiv Shakti Dance Company.
He had gone liming with friends in Port of Spain and when he left them early he asked the driver of a white Corolla hatchback plying for hire in the vicinity of the San Juan taxi-stand on Independence Square, Port of Spain, if he was available for hire, according to his sister.
The Corolla was later discovered by police to a be a stolen vehicle, she added.
The driver, whom the Sunday Express understands was deported from the United States, and who was the apparent leader of the kidnapping operation, said yes and agreed to take him to Aranjuez where the siblings live.
Rennie sat in the front passenger seat and when the driver picked up another man at Henry Street, he became suspicious and said he wanted out, his sister said.
But it was too late and the man who entered last placed an object, thought to be a gun, to the back of his head and told him, "You not getting out, you staying right here."
He was then blindfolded and taken to an unknown location.
The kidnappers made Rennie call persons on his phone but many didn't answer at that early time in the morning.
"Like nobody care for your life. You going to die tonight," Rennie was threatened.
They tapped and hit him, his sister said.
Continuing the account, Sasha Mohammed said he eventually got onto a close friend who negotiated with the kidnappers for her brother's life.
That friend initially told them she only had $500 and when they threatened to send her Rennie's head in a box, she haggled the $10,000 down-payment request to $3,000 and agreed to where the cash would be dropped.
Unknown to the kidnappers though, Sasha's friend's husband was a police officer and he contacted the Anti-Kidnapping Squad (AKS).
So when an apparently homeless man approached the bin where the money was dropped off and took the money, he was immediately seized by the police.
He later led the police to the other two kidnappers and both were arrested, Sasha said.
At 2.30 a.m., three heavily armed police officers from the Barataria Police Station clad in plain clothes had knocked on the door of the Aranjuez apartment where Sasha and her brother live.
When they told her they were investigating a report of her brother being kidnapped she said she immediately went into shock.
First instinct caused her to call her brother's phone and when an unknown man with an American accent answered she said she asked for Rennie saying her car was shut down and she needed help.
When she called back, as instructed by the kidnappers, they tried to get money from her but then she was told that the friend was handling the situation.
Apparently before they were arrested, the kidnappers called the friend and told her where Rennie had been released.
He was found by the police in some bushes in Curepe and later examined at the Mount Hope Hospital.
Sasha told the Sunday Express that he was physically safe but "tremendously shaken".
"I've seen almost everything there is to see and gone through everything else there is to go through in Trinidad and Tobago," she said.
She said the officers at the Barataria Police Station were very co-operative and she thanked the AKS for their diligence.