{"id":10352,"date":"2013-09-16T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2013-09-16T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T12:46:33","slug":"seven-arrested-after-looting-somali-owned-shops-in-pe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10352","title":{"rendered":"Seven arrested after looting Somali-owned shops in PE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/somali_shop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10355\" alt=\"somali_shop\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/somali_shop-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/somali_shop-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/somali_shop.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Seven men have been arrested for looting and burning Somali-owned shops in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We can confirm that seven suspects have since been arrested and charged with public violence. All the suspects are in their late 20s,&#8221; said Colonel Sibongile Soci.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were expected to appear in the New Brighton Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soci said no new incidents had been reported and the police were closely monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 10 shops in KwaZakhele and New Brighton were attacked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brigadier Miranda Mills said two shops were looted and burnt in Ntintili street, and a car parked outside was also set alight at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several other shops were targeted on Sunday following the arrest of a Somali man accused of shooting dead a man outside a shop on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;According to a witness there was an argument between the suspect and the victim. The [police] arrested the suspect and the firearm used&#8230; was recovered,&#8221; said Mills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police had since moved some foreigners out of the area. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven men have been arrested for looting and burning Somali-owned shops in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. &#8220;We can confirm that seven suspects have since been arrested and charged with public violence. All the suspects are in their late 20s,&#8221; said Colonel Sibongile Soci. They were expected to appear in the New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven arrested after looting Somali-owned shops in PE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6253,2022,205,3710,2564],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-arrests","tag-looting","tag-police","tag-somali","tag-xenophobia"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/somali_shop.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10356,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions\/10356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}