Martin Jacobson, the brother of Freedom Front Plus (FF+) City Councillor Paul Jacobson, has been issued a warning after making his first court appearance for allegedly threatening to rape and kill a woman and her family.
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Martin Jacobson appeared briefly in the Strand Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, and the case was postponed until 5 April for further investigation.
He is charged with threatening to assault.
In support of Cassia Souza, who filed the complaint against Martin, the EFF’s Nazier Paulsen stated, ‘I accompanied Cassia and her husband to the Strand police station to file a charge against him.’
‘The comment was made on Paul’s Facebook page and Paul gave the comment a thumbs up instead of admonishing his brother. Cassia is a pious and introverted person. She and her husband, Reza, have since been subjected to harassment and intimidation.’
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Souza had responded to the councillor’s Facebook post last month about South Africa approaching the International Court of Justice, to which Martin also responded.
The woman commented that Paul sickened her, saying: ‘This man (the councillor) is nauseating, just like all of them spewing lies around, trying their best to justify indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians, pregnant mothers run over with bulldozers, graveyards turned upside down, actual babies left to rot on hospital beds, sick. It can’t get worse than what we’re seeing.’
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Martin had responded: ‘Maybe I should send people to rape and murder your family and community. As was shown by Hamas videos. Let me come rape you and your daughters. Even your mother. Maybe we should. You guys are really so stupid to believe the propaganda. But I’m not going to change your mind.’
‘You’re basically anti-Semitic. That won’t change. But Israel will survive and that’s just how it is.’
Paul liked his brother’s comment, and the post was deleted due to complaints from other users.
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