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Leon sees cops about pamphlet
04/06/2006 16:57 - (SA)
Johannesburg - Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon will lay a charge of crimen injuria for police to investigate the origins of a fake Africa Muslim Party (AMP) pamphlet defaming him and his wife, the party said on Sunday.
DA chief executive Ryan Coetzee said "A fraudulent pamphlet, purporting to be the product of the Africa Muslim Party has been distributed in Tafelsig, Mitchell's Plain.
The pamphlet is a racist, hate-mongering defamation of Tony Leon and his wife, Michal, and is an example of the lowest kind of gutter politics."
He said the party's AMP partners in Cape Town's multiparty government said the pamphlet was a fraud and was not drawn up or distributed by their party.
Accused of being Zionists
"It is our understanding that the AMP will consider laying a charge of fraud in this regard."
The pamphlet accuses Leon and his Israeli wife of supporting "racist and murderous" Israeli government policies.
It accuses the two of being Zionists whom, it claims, murder innocent Christian and Muslim women and the elderly on a daily basis in Palestine.
"Do you, as a DA voter, condone and support the daily murders of our innocent brothers and sisters in Palestine?" the pamphlet asks.
On Monday, Leon will lay a charge of crimen injuria, asking the police to investigate the pamphlet's authorship and prosecute those responsible.
Campaigning in Mitchell's Plain
"The DA will lay separate charges because the pamphlet constitutes an out-and-out violation of the Electoral Act," said coetzee.
The DA has been campaigning in Tafelsig ahead of a crucial by-election next week.
A DA win in ward 82 by-election will double its slender majority on the city council.
- SAPA
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