Photo: Screenshot of video/Twitter
Watch as a man gets hijacked by three armed men while trying to close the gate during load shedding in Kempton Park.
Photo: Screenshot of video/Twitter
A video of a man getting hijacked while trying to close a gate in his driveway during load shedding has been doing the rounds on social media.
In the video featured below, we can see a man fiddling with what looks like a chain on his gate. It seems like he is busy closing the gate when three armed men run up to him. The one-armed perp is seen getting into the parked vehicle while another is busy throwing the victim on the ground. The victim is robbed and kicked before the armed men take off in his Mercedes Benz.
According to the video the hijacking took place on 14 October 2021.
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According to Arrive Alive (AA), the increasing retrenchment and the high unemployment figures in SA are contributing to the dramatic increases in hijackings.
“This is easy earned money, and the already well-established syndicates will buy these vehicles from the hijacker. Vehicle hijacking is an organised business, run according to business principles and based on thorough planning.
“Specific vehicles with specific characteristics are ordered beforehand and efforts have to be made to meet the requirements of such orders. These vehicles will then be resold to the already predetermined buyer.
The hijacked vehicles that are not sold to buyers in South Africa, will be smuggled out of the country. These vehicles will be sold in our neighbouring countries or trade, exchanged for drugs,” the AA said.
It furthermore said most hijackings take place in the driveways of residential areas. These hijackers prefer areas with accessible escape routes.
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