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Swearing costs a Briton Dh2,000
By Amira Agarib

11 August 2005
DUBAI — The Dubai Misdemeanor Court has fined a 46-year-old British national, Roger D., Dh2000 for insulting Araabi H., a Syrian national working as a driver with Dubai Transport, by using abusive language.

The police received a call on May 28 that a fight had broken out between two persons near a coffee house at Deira. A police patrol immediately rushed to the spot where they were told by the Syrian that a European had insulted and abused him. He gave the police the Dubai car registration number of the accused. The police intercepted Roger at the fifth interchange near Jebel Ali and arrested him.

During interrogation at the Public Prosecution, the accused confessed that he insulted the Syrian driver, but maintained that he too had used abusive language against him, which he understood. He told the Public Prosecution that he too used the same abusive words. He was subsequently produced before court, which handed down the fine to him.
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