Gabriella Engels who was attacked by former First Lady, Grace Mugabe has said she hoped Grace would be brought back to South Africa to fac...
Gabriella Engels who was attacked by former First Lady,
Grace Mugabe has said she hoped Grace would be brought back to South Africa to
face the charges.
“I hope she does come back to account. I leave everything
now in God’s hands and I know that he will get us through everything. I’m very optimistic. Very, very optimistic. I’m happy that
the ball has started rolling and we have a good legal team that is backing us,
so we are optimistic that things will go well,” she said.
Civil rights group AfriForum is representing Gabriella in
court. Head of AfriForum’s private prosecution unit, Advocate Gerrie Nel, said : “We are saying the granting of the
diplomatic immunity happened as an afterthought. It was after the assault on
our client Ms Gabriella Engels. We want to ensure that there is equality before
the law, that there are no selective prosecutions, and that people are not
sheltered from prosecution because of an afterthought of granting diplomatic
immunity,” said Nel.
“We believe that … we are very confident that the
diplomatic immunity will be lifted. If that happens, then certainly the NPA
must do their duty and that is to ensure that the accused is brought back into
the country and that there is a prosecution. Failure of which, we have said
this before, we will privately prosecute – if there is no prosecution.”
— Monique Taute (@monique_taute) 10 May 2018
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