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Armed pirates beat, rob two fishermen
Armed pirates beat, attacked and robbed two Corentyne fishermen around 19:30 hrs on Tuesday in the Atlantic near the Corentyne River, a few miles from Port Mourant.
The two men were badly beaten by the men and their boat ransacked and items stolen by the pirates.
“Five men came up on us around seven-thirty and they started to beat us. One of them had a gun. We threw out our seines and were waiting to pick up and they came in and attack us. They burst up our mouths,” one of the victims related.
According to him, the pirates arrived in a similar fishing vessel to theirs and moored close before shouting, “Get down! Get down!”
“They just drive alongside of us and started to put lash on us. They demanded fish, glue and milk. I had a wristwatch on and they took out my watch and they left. We had to put on sail and sailed whole night and reached out at 3am and went to the police station and they told us to take out a medical and I had to extract my teeth… and they beat me on my back badly.”
He said that the men used cutlasses to beat them.
“After that, they started to beat me more bad with their cutlasses, and I fell and I tried to get to see their face, but was not able, and then they got away.”
The men made off a cell phone, 2 packs of cigarettes $5,000 worth of gas, with a lead (used to siphon gas) and his gas tank, along with a jar.
The pirates, while swiping menacingly at the men with their cutlasses, also damaged the boat engines and damaged the power packs, etc. They also tried to destroy the engines “so we could not reach the shores”. The cost for repairs, the fisherman said, is some $50,000.
“Me never experience something like this…This is a first time, because for the first time you see a boat like that in the night, you suppose to start your boat and get away. We reported the matter to the police and gave a statement but we ain’t know anybody from the boat and did not recognize anyone. I got to full NIS every month and I will not work for now and my teeth break up in my mouth and I have to go look for something to do.”
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