The eight VIP protection unit members captured on video assaulting young men on the side of the N1 in Johannesburg last week have been suspended.
The officers were part of the security detail of Deputy President Paul Mashatile, who has said he was not in the vehicle at the time of the incident.
National police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe announced late on Monday night that the officers “have been suspended in terms of theThe brief press statement concluded with Mathe saying that the police “wishes not to discuss the matter further”. The officers were served with suspension notices last week after the video showing them assaulting military trainees went viral on social media.
A case of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, malicious damage to property and pointing a firearm was opened against the men days after the incident took place. Cele, through his spokesperson Lirandzu Themba, did not respond to theThemba upheld that the police “through the National Commissioner has spoken on this matter at length”.
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