Afrikaner pensioner Nico de Vries, 69, cut, beaten black and blue with a hammer in attack by two male attackers, Moederkappie Street, North-Paarl: Tues Jan212014 #Burger journalist Maryke Swart reports in story headlined "Elderly robbed in broad daylight'. Mr De Vries reportedly was attacked at 11h50 Tuesday in his living room with the sliding door open when two black males attacked him from behind, tied his hands behind him, and demanded money. They were armed with a knife and a hammer. De Vries said they can empty his wallet with R130, then they dragged him to his bedroom, demanding to know the whereabouts of 'the safe'. De Vries doesn't have a safe but the men strolled through his home looking behind mirrors and pictures, convinced he was lying. The men filled a rucksack with all the loose stuff they could find including light-bulbs, cigarettes, a lighter and his cellphone. "They handled me roughly. One kept bashing me with his hammer, he wanted to beat me to death and forbidding me to scream, the other just kept on stopping him from killing me,' the pensioner said. His attackers fled on foot and he raised the alarm. He said he's lived in the place for the past nine months and he was 'bitterly disappointed that this happened: so many times I give these guys food, they could just have asked.' His son Kobus said he was shocked when he got his father's call. 'He told me then he was OK, I didn't have to come, but I couldn't just leave him like that.' He immediately went to buy an extra sliding door and decided to add more security items to the house. SAPS captain Louise du Plessis said they only investigate a charge of 'house-robbery'. --- There was no mention in this report that a charge of attempted murder would also be investigated against one of the attackers: despite Mr de Vries' injuries (pic attached) and his statement that one man had wanted to bludgeon him to death with a hammer. -
The two suspects are still at large.
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