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Three Students on Trial for ‘Kidnap’, Impersonation

An Egyptian, a Jordanian and a Frenchman, all of them aged about 19, allegedly forced an American visitor into their car after they posed as Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers.

The defendants made the visitor give them $1,000 so that they would not report him to the police because he just emerged from a bar.

Shortly after they were caught by the police and they were made to return the money to the visitor in the police patrol.

The incident happened on August 28 outside a hotel in Al Mankhoul in Raffa.

A Pakistani taxi driver said in the investigation that on that day he was on duty and he saw the defendants stepping off a car and approaching the plaintiff, and Russian Chinese and African women. He said that they posed as CIDs to lure the women into their car.

Another Pakistani driver told the prosecutors that the Jordanian defendant tried to make a female passenger to step out of his cab. “He posed as a CID officer and wanted to arrest that woman,” the driver claimed.

The American visitor said the defendants kidnapped him after forcing him into their car. He said that they were holding black plastic batons and posed as CID officers.

mary@khaleejtimes.ae

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