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Anti-drug vigilantism in CT
19/06/2007 16:48 - (SA)
Cape Town - Police say a docket of public violence has been opened after a crowd vandalised houses and cars thought to belong to drug-sellers at Lentegeur.
Superintendent Billy Jones said people should come forward and lay charges of malicious damage to property if their homes had been vandalised.
No arrests have been made.
Jones said six houses and 12 vehicles were damaged as about 400 residents of Lentegeur took to the streets on Monday night.
He said the residents targeted what were allegedly houses where drugs were being sold.
No injuries were reported.
The raid took place a day after Mitchell's Plain neighbourhood watch member, 48-year-old Abduraghman Sydow, was killed outside a house in Lentegeur by two unknown men on Sunday night.
The house outside which he was killed was reportedly a "smokkelhuis," a house where liquor or drugs are illegally sold.
A murder docket has been opened but no-one has yet been arrested.
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