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Did Zimbabwe’s First Lady Beat a Model With an Extension Cord?
New York Magazine ^ | 8/18 | Gabriella Paiella

Posted on 08/18/2017 12:34:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe, is accused of assaulting a young model in South Africa with an electrical extension cord last Sunday night — and likely will get out of the legal situation with diplomatic immunity.

Twenty-year-old model Gabriella Engels alleges that the incident occurred on Sunday night in the Capital 20 West hotel in Johannesburg, where she and friends were going to meet up with one of Mugabe’s sons. Per The Guardian, Engels told local media the following:

We were chilling in a hotel room, and [the sons] were in the room next door. She came in and started hitting us. She flipped and just kept beating me with the plug, over and over … I had to crawl out of the room before I could run away.

South African police initially said that they put up a “red alert” at the borders to prevent Mugabe — wife of 93-year-old Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe — from leaving the country. However, Mugabe has not turned herself into police and Zimbabwe authorities are seeking diplomatic immunity for the First Lady, claiming that she was in South Africa at the time for a regional summit. Reporter Peter Granitz told NPR that “the victim’s lawyers said she was in the country for personal reasons, including shopping and medical treatment, and that means she would not qualify for the immunity.”

According to what government sources told Reuters, Mugabe is expected to receive immunity in the case, in the interest of maintaining diplomatic relations between the two countries.

In 2009, a photographer in Hong Kong also claimed that Mugabe beat him.

Engels, meanwhile has hired Oscar Pistorius’s attorney, Gerrie Nel, and is “prepared to fight this in the highest court.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: exetensioncord; localnews; model; zimbabwe

1 posted on 08/18/2017 12:34:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

She’s applied for diplomatic immunity in SA so I suspect so.


2 posted on 08/18/2017 12:36:02 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: nickcarraway

No she is black that would never happen

Only Nazis do such things


3 posted on 08/18/2017 12:36:45 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: nickcarraway
..is accused of assaulting a young model in South Africa with an electrical extension cord last Sunday night

Was it a black cord? RACISS BITCH!

4 posted on 08/18/2017 12:36:47 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: nickcarraway
Did she suspect the model "meeting up" with the sons was not a model? Maybe she keeps extension cords handy for such occasions. Although how old would a Mugabe son be, 75?! 🤣
5 posted on 08/18/2017 12:49:03 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

That didn’t escape my notice either.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 1:35:51 PM PDT by ALongRoadAhead
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To: nickcarraway

Guess it beats being “necklaced”.


7 posted on 08/18/2017 1:36:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

“she and friends were going to meet up with one of Mugabe’s sons.”

Nothing good was going to come of that!


8 posted on 08/18/2017 2:10:25 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: nickcarraway

model=prostitute?


9 posted on 08/18/2017 2:10:46 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: dynachrome

model=prostitute?”

We can’t possibly judge this question without a picture.


10 posted on 08/18/2017 2:47:55 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: nickcarraway

A lady goes to the hotel room to visit a couple of Black dudes probably isn’t going there to ‘model’.


11 posted on 08/18/2017 3:12:26 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: nickcarraway

Looks like she went to the very same First Lady school as Moochie.

12 posted on 08/18/2017 5:53:04 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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