iceman wrote:On the 20th of July,after spending three hours shopping in Nicosia,while driving on Makarios Avenue,Yucedal familys car was attacked by about 200 GC's who were protesting the 20th of July aniversary...While driving in trafic,their car was attacked by these protesters kicking the car and using flag poles,bottles and sticks to hit the vehicle..
luckily the traffic was not very busy on Makarios Avenue so they managed to speed away.
Mete Yucedal has said,since the checkpoints have opened they had been crossing over frequently for shopping but after this incident they will not be crossing over again.
Esra Yucedal said,we were attacked from the passenger side of the car where i was sitting..I was shocked and terrified,they swore abuse and spat all over me..cannot describe the nightmare we went through..but the worst was seeing the police watching everything and not reacting at all...I will never be crossing over again and do not want any peace with these people..
Tamer Yucedal has said,"I have arrived from London through Larnaca 10 days ago..I have been using Larnaca since the checkpoints opened,but after this incident i will not be using Larnaca anymore:ı will cancel may return ticket and travel back to London from the north..I will be telling this bad experience to newspapers when i get back to London..I dont know how these people were accepted into EU...
We,as a family have been firm supporters of peace & unification in Cyprus but now i see it is not possible to have peace with these people"..
Kıbris newspaper has noted that on the same day,smaller but similar other incidents were reported to the newspaper by phone..
thx iceman...don't thik i'd trust anyone elses's translation.
This is a story of a family who has had there car vandalised by a bunch of thugs on the anniversary of the invasion. Looks like the tc car went straight into their demonstration.
WHile i condemn this and the idiots that vandalised that car i have a few points to make.
1) The anniversary of the invasion is the most sensitive of days. Memories of getting kicked out of your house and 6000 gc's dead make not a pleasant day. Especially when you know the other side is celebrating on your tragedy.
2) We have thugs over here like there are thugs over there (Grey Wolves have a party now from what I see....3rd biggest) Hrisi Avgi has been made illegal here and in Greece however there are still 20-30 of them around.
3) "TC family got beaten up in Makariou" is not what has happened here as VP quotes. They drove into a anti-occupation rally on the day of the invasion and a number of thugs started beating their car with flags. (according to kibris)
4) I apologise for the idiots that did this yet wonder if VP would apologise if the Grey Wolves sprung up on a GC car.....