Posted on 12/11/2005 5:53:22 PM PST by Delta 21
POLICE have made their first arrest over the bashing of three North Cronulla surf lifesavers as details emerged that the violence was not completely unprovoked. Detectives arrested an 18-year-old Bankstown concreter at his Petersham workplace shortly before 10am.
Police took a statement from him about the assault on Sunday at North Cronulla beach before he was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company and affray and granted conditional bail.
Shortly before 2pm the man emerged in the back of a police car. Detectives drove him to nearby Railway Ave, where he left the police car and jumped into a white sedan. The youth, when approached by The Daily Telegraph, refused to talk about the incident.
Police will allege he did not start the assault but did throw a number of punches during the melee. He is scheduled to appear before Sutherland Local Court on January 19.
Meanwhile, The Daily Telegraph has learned police are not treating Sunday's bashing as completely unprovoked.
Police will allege that as the three lifesavers were walking from the beach to the boardwalk about 3pm four Middle Eastern youths began yelling at them in Arabic. The lifesavers said to the the youths: "What are you looking at?"
The Middle Eastern youths allegedly told the lifesavers to get off the beach and that they "owned" the beach.
The lifesavers allegedly responded by telling the youths that if they went in the surf, they would need rescuing because they could not swim.
Strong coarse language was allegedly used by both groups. The taunt about swimming turned the aggression physical, with the four youths bashing the lifesavers and another eight to 10 Middle Eastern males joining them, police will allege.
One surf lifesaver, aged 19, sustained a cut near his eye and the other two, aged 15 and 20, suffered facial bruising.
A lifeguards on patrol at the time of the attack told The Daily Telegraph yesterday a colleague had just finished patrol and was leaving the beach when he was allegedly confronted and abused by one of the men.
"There was some pushing and shoving and then another bloke ran up from behind and king hit him and then he was on the ground. That's when I ran up to help," he said. "They punched me and kept fighting."
The Daily Telegraph
This report was published at dailytelegraph.news.com.au
There's an idea - - let them have Australia, under the rule of Lex Luthor.
Now its just a matter of time and numbers 'till all y'all'l accompany the rest of dead and decadent Old Eurarabia down the swirling gurgler.
I like the cut of your jib, Mr. Brian Allen. Always did like Aussies. Went to a couple of after Rugby parties in my youth; great parties I must say. The beginning of my love affair with Aussies. You speak to truth, and I like the way you phrase it too. Qualifies under colorful speech.
So far, so good, shaggy.
I'm told major blackouts won't occur until AFTER next year's Victorian election!
Is that a sucker punch?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm ....
Missed one ....
<< Once more a load of bollox, which appeasement. >>
Take your pick.
[Hint: start with thirty to fifty years of your Labour and "Conservative" "governments'" allowing themselves to be led by the nose by the shower of epidemically-alcoholic, bank-robbing, drug and gun-running, multi-national-terrorist-training, lying, looting, thieving, gutlessly-anonymously mass-murdering, psychopathological gangster bastards that so grandiosley self-styles itself the "i r a" - and pretends to not be Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness and various other similar predators. And only then move on to your many thousands, probably scores of thousands, of imported and home-grown islamanazis]
And we still gotchah sixes.
Sounds like routine gang business to me.
<< Is that a sucker punch? >>
Yep.
"King hit" is "'Strayne" for sucker punched.
,,, ha! We'll have a cold VB or five later this month, eh?
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