South Africa Crime: Motorist Runs Over Carjacker

Terrifying moment South African motorist runs over carjacker who aimed a gun at him... four months after crooks attacked his vehicle with axes on same stretch of road

• Corporate manager Mario Campbell ran over his armed attacker in South Africa
• The teen terror was seen walking towards him with a gun aimed at his head 
• Just three months ago, Mr Campbell was attacked by axe-wielding robbers on the same stretch of road 

This is the terrifying moment a South African motorist ran over a carjacker who aimed a gun at his head while he was slowing down at traffic lights.

Corporate manager Mario Campbell was in a township near Cape Town when the teenager calmly walked out into the dual carriageway.

As the attacker raised his gun, the frightened father-of-two revved his engine and accelerated, aiming his Toyota Ayga, known as an Aygo in the UK, straight at the youngster.

Incredible dashcam video shows the hapless young criminal realising too late that 1.3 tons of speeding car is about to hit him.

Footage shows the wannabe teenage hijacker somersaulting over the left side of the bonnet and landing on his back in the road at Khayelitsha township, where 2.5 million people live in poverty in shacks.

It comes four months after crooks attacked Mr Campbell's car with axes on the same stretch of road.

The teen robber was seen wielding a gun as he tried going for Mr Campbell's car

Mario Campbell immediately decided to accelerate into the robber 

The armed crook quickly realised he wasn't going to slow down

The attempted robbery took place in South Africa's Khayelitsha township, where 2.5 million live in poverty in shacks

Mr Campbell refused to comment for fear of reprisals after injuring the gunman

The young crook, who has not yet been identified, can be seen tumbling over the left side of the car

This wasn't the first time corporate manager Mario Campbell was attacked by armed robbers

Mr Campbell - who has an another incredible video showing him escaping a hijack by an axeman on the same stretch of road at the previous set of traffic lights 200 yards away - is then seen speeding off. 

The businessman told friends on Facebook: 'First a maniac with an axe trying to smash his way into my car then a kid who should have been at school holding me up with a handgun!

'That is it dudes I am taking a different way into work from now on - I just want to go to work and come home to my family safe'.

Thousands took to social media supporting Mr Campbell as his video went viral praising him for taking the law into his own hands and hailed him a 'hero' for fighting back against criminals.

Community leader Bongile Zanazo said the Mew Way Bridge where Mr Campbell was targeted on the M32 by the entrance to Khayelitsha was a hotspot for car-jackings at gunpoint and knifepoint.

He said: 'We are aware of the various crimes incidents that keep happening there and have put into place an stiff action plan to combat it but the details of that are being kept top secret.

'We also implore the City of Cape Town to deploy more police officers to the area to prevent these crimes taking place' he said.

The first 28 second video shows Mr Campbell driving along the highway behind a station wagon and a minibus taxi as he slows down to allow a car to turn right when the gunman suddenly appears.

The youth had been waiting in ambush sitting on a crash barrier and is believed to have approached his target having seen the company logo on the car, knowing it would contain valuables.

Mr Campbell refused to comment for fear of reprisals after injuring the gunman who escaped back into the maze of shacks but a close friend said: 'He is a very brave man.

'Three months before, at almost the same spot, a robber with an axe went after him but he got away and now he has run over a gunman - that is twice and you can only be lucky so many times.

'He now takes another route to and from work and is fully aware of his surroundings at every set of traffic lights' she said.

Mr Campbell was attacked by axe-wielding robbers in June

A close friend said he was worried about Mario's safety: 'You can only be lucky so many times'

He managed to capture the terrifying incident on a dashcam 

It is understood the thieves who menace dozens of miles of the local roads target company cars that are marked as it is likely they have laptops and expensive equipment inside

It is understood the thieves who menace dozens of miles of the local roads target company cars that are marked as it is likely they have laptops and expensive equipment inside.

The local Khayelitsha Police Station has more car hijackings reported than any other police station in South Africa and each year the country suffers over 22,000 such car incidents.

Local Crime Watch volunteer Juwa Dimande said: 'If you stop at a red traffic light, as a law abiding citizen would of course do, you are putting yourself at risk of an attack or even death.

'They will smash your window and if you resist them they will shoot you. Simple as that. All the traffic lights do in Khayelitsha is change colour – nobody stops for them. It's too dangerous.

'Even ambulances attending emergencies to save the lives of the township people are attacked and robbed and hijacked.'

On June 30, Mr Campbell's dashcam video, which also records inside the car, picked up two men walking alongside his car on the passenger side as he pulled up at traffic lights.

It was just 200 yards from the set of lights where the schoolboy tried to hijack him with a gun earlier this month.

The footage shows two men knocking on his passenger window to distract him while a third robber armed with a vicious axe pulls it out from under his jacket and tries to smash his window.

Fortunately the blade bounces off the Toyota Agya window allowing Mr Campbell to hit the accelerator and speed off to safety.

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BBC Master Class in Terrorist Propaganda

BBC's masterpiece in terrorist propaganda

In the fog of war, the truth is all too often obscured. Claim and counter-claim compete, which is why it is so vital that news outlets verify every piece of information.

The BBC fell disgracefully short of this obligation with its questionable reporting of the devastating explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.

Within minutes of Tuesday's blast, Hamas had pointed the finger of blame at Israel, claiming an air strike had killed hundreds of patients, healthcare staff and people seeking safety in the medical centre's grounds.

Israel, meanwhile, categorically denied culpability. It insisted the atrocity was caused by a malfunctioning rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group based in Gaza.

Only one of these sworn enemies could be telling the truth. Indeed, the Mail's front-page headline yesterday morning was: 'Hospital horror: Who is to blame?'

The BBC fell disgracefully short of this obligation with its questionable reporting of the devastating explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City

Given the volatility of the Middle East, the BBC should surely have exercised restraint rather than rushed to judgment at such a sensitive moment.

Instead, the broadcaster did the opposite. With obscene haste, it uncritically parroted the Hamas version of events.

'It's hard to see what else this could be other than an Israeli air strike,' one correspondent irresponsibly told viewers.

But of course, there is another possible explanation, which grew in credibility as the hours passed.

Is it really conceivable that Israel would have fired missiles anywhere near a hospital? The Jewish state is conscious the world is watching as it seeks retribution against Hamas for the massacre of 1,400 civilians.

Nor would the timing have made sense with US President Joe Biden visiting the country yesterday in a show of support.

It would also have handed the terrorists a massive propaganda victory.

Crucially, the hospital buildings remained standing despite the blast. An Israeli airstrike would have left nothing but a smoking crater and rubble.

A view of damage on October 18, 2023 after Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was hit in Gaza City

Evidence released by Tel Aviv yesterday – and backed by US intelligence – points overwhelmingly to the bloodshed being caused by a militant rocket aimed at Israel falling short. It wouldn't be the first time.

So why did the BBC give the world a masterclass in how to spread jihadist misinformation? There is a clue in its perverse refusal to describe the mass murderers of Hamas as 'terrorists' – despite being designated so in UK law.

The corporation's left-liberal worldview means it is institutionally biased towards the Palestinian cause and distrusts Israel.

That is why it takes the word of Hamas, a death cult dedicated to annihilating the Jews, at face value, while simultaneously holding Israel to a higher level of scrutiny.

In an interview with the Mail, Israel's president Isaac Herzog describes the BBC's reporting of the conflict as 'atrocious'. He's right. And it's more than that. It not only legitimises evil, it's extremely dangerous.

With Israel bombarding the terrorists' base in the Gaza Strip, it's inevitable most Arabs and Muslims will believe it was responsible for attacking the hospital. By regurgitating Hamas's line, the corporation – which wields unparalleled influence across the globe – validates this inaccurate view.

As a result, it risks fuelling riots across the Middle East, inciting anti-Western attacks elsewhere in the world and stirring up hatred against Jews.

Today Rishi Sunak will be the next world leader to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu.

While rightly supporting Israel's right to defend itself, the PM will urge all sides to avoid 'further escalation' and press the case for allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.

By placing the UK at the vanguard of these efforts, he is showing that post-Brexit Britain remains a responsible presence on the global stage. If only the same could be said for the increasingly unreliable BBC.

How Brussels Became the Terror Capital of Europe

How Brussels became the terror capital of Europe: As another ISIS fanatic brings carnage to Belgium, how migrant ghettos turned into a breeding ground for fanaticism that has sparked some of Europe's worst atrocities

Not for the first time, Brussels has been rocked by a terror atrocity thought to have been carried out by an Islamic State fanatic.

A gunman, who was armed with an automatic rifle, murdered two Swedish football supporters who had been out enjoying their night out in the Belgian capital.

Abdesalem Lassoued, 45, believed to have been an asylum seeker of Tunisian origin, was shot dead by police in a café in the Schaerbeek area the next day, following an intensive overnight manhunt.

He had been living illegally in the municipality, a poor area of the city home to a large immigrant population, many of whom come from Turkey and north Africa and are of Muslim faith.

The neighbourhood came into focus following the 2016 Brussels bombings, and is situated a stones throw away from Molenbeek, another area marred by its history of terrorist activity.

Areas like these, experts say, can become 'incubators of violent extremism' - with 'ghettoization' occurring in the city which, while diverse, remains starkly divided between rich and poor, 'European' and 'immigrant' in many areas.

Video shows Abdesalem Lassoued dressed in a fluorescent orange jacket and carrying a gun driving through the streets of Brussels last night 

Forensic investigators at the scene in Brussels were two people were shot dead by a gunman

People put flowers at the bank branch, where two football supporters from Sweden were shot dead in a terror attack in Brussels

Both Schaerbeek and Molenbeek occupy an area known as the 'poor croissant' of Brussels, and have seen hostilities erupt into street violence over the years.

Spates of stabbings have taken place, including of police officers, and addresses have been subject to police raids over radicalistion fears.

'Almost every time (an Islamic terrorist atrocity occurs) there is a link with Molenbeek,' the then-Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel admitted in 2015. 

Molenbeek's links to terrorist activity stretch back to 2001, when terrorists who assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, an Afghan politician who opposed the Taliban, were sheltered there. 

Anti-terrorism investigations went on to be conducted in the district in the wake of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, the 2014 Jewish Museum attack in Brussels, and following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in 2015.

Once known as 'Little Manchester' due to its industrial past, Molenbeek has frequently been named one of the poorest areas in Belgium, and is separated from more wealthy neighbourhoods by a canal.

High unemployment rates, three times the national average, plague the young population of the north Brussels municipality, and recent reports suggest a rise in drug dealing in the area.

With families turning to the drugs trade 'as a business model,' anthropologist Johan Leman told Foreign Policy that ISIS used drug dealing networks to recruit members in the neighbourhood.

While attacks by Islamist extremists had been scarce before the recent shooting, residents have also expressed worry that jihadist sleeper cells could be operating. 

In March 2016, suicide bombers believed to be part of an IS cell struck at Brussels airport and on the city Metro

A private security guard helps a wounded women outside the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels in March 2016

At the height of ISIS's power in 2016, almost 500 fighters left Belgium bound for Iraq and Syria, according to a report.

The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation found that Belgium was Europe's biggest source of jihadi fighters in Syria and Iraq at the time.

It was said to be supplying about 40 militants for every million inhabitants - twice the ratio in France and four times that in the UK. 

Dozens went on to return to the country, posing a huge security risk and making them potential recruiters. 

Lassoued was among those reported to have been radicalised, ready to fight in a conflict zone for jihad, in 2016, Belgian media outlet RTBF reports.

Police opened fire during the arrest, a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutors' service, Eric Van Duyse, said, without confirming a report by broadcaster RTBF that the suspect was wounded. Pictured: Police at the scene this morning 

Belgian police arrested a suspected gunman following an intensive manhunt for an ISIS fanatic who shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels with an automatic rifle in a terrorist attack. Pictured: Police at the scene

Belgian police officers from the forensic service gather in the street in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels, where Abdesalem Lassoued was shot dead

He had been known to the police for his illegal residence in Brussels and for 'endangering state security'.

'But this was part of dozens of daily reports of this type' at the time, Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne said, adding that nothing could have been done at the time.

The Tunisian unsuccessfully sought asylum in Belgium in November 2019 and was ordered to leave the territory. 

Terror threats in the country are also homegrown. Salah Abdeslam, who grew up in Molenbeek, is thought to have been recruited into an ISIS cell while in prison for drug dealing.

Two women wounded in Brussels Airport after suicide bombers detonated homemade explosives on March 22, 2016

Special intervention forces sit on top of a roof as they prepare to enter a house in Brussels on Monday amid a manhunt for a suspect of the Paris attacks (2016)

Salah Abdeslam was recently handed life in prison for his role in the Paris massacre

He, along with his brother and a number of other Molenbeek locals, went on to commit one of Europe's deadliest terror attacks in Paris in 2015.

Abdeslam was recently handed life in prison for his role in the massacre, which saw 130 people murdered as shooters and suicide bombers targeted a rock concert, cafes and France's national stadium.

At least seven of the twenty men involved in the mass killing had connections with Molenbeek.

Among them was Abdeslam, who dropped his brother Brahim off at the Bataclan theatre where he opened fire on concertgoers before blowing himself up.

The 32-year-old, who also ferried three other terrorists around Paris on that deadly November night before going to McDonald's, was the only member of the ISIS cell to survive the attacks.

He went on the run for months, before he was eventually found by Belgian special operations forces sheltering at a safe house in Molenbeek, allegedly helped by a network of local contacts and friends.

Najim Laachraoui, who grew up Schaerbeek, was one of the suicide bombers in the 2016 Brussels attack

The terrorists were caught carrying out their attack on CCTV. One, Mohamed Abrini, (pictured) went on the run rather than detonating his device

Days after Abdeslam's arrest in March 2016, suicide bombers believed to be part of the same cell struck at Brussels airport and on the city Metro, killing 32 and injuring hundreds. 

Abdeslam was among the six convicted, and his arrest for the Paris attacks may have prompted other members of the IS cell to rush ahead with attack plans.

The morning rush hour attacks on March 22, 2016 at Zavantem Airport and on the Brussels subway's central commuter line shook the city to its core.

Najim Laachraoui, who grew up Schaerbeek, was one of the suicide bombers at the airport just a short drive away from his home.

A university educated electrical engineer turned bombmaker, his factory of death was located in the district. 

The morning rush hour attacks in March 2016 at Zavantem Airport and on the Brussels subway's central commuter line shook the city to its core

Police and soldiers check Brussels airport employees at the entrance of Zaventem airport in 2016, following attacks

He, along with Ibrahim El Bakraoui, used the weapons to blow himself up in the airport's departure hall.

A third man, Mohamed Abrini, ran off - leaving the heaviest of their explosive devices which security services later detonated. 

A total of 32 people were killed in the terrorists' horrific attack, and nearly 900 others were wounded or suffered serious mental trauma.

Tragically, Brussels is again reeling from yet more Islamist terrorist violence.

In its aftermath, urgent questions will need to be asked about how the city polices enclaves which are potential hotbeds for extremism.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12639643/Brussels-terror-capital-Europe-ISIS-fanatic-Belgium-migrant-breeding-ground-worst-atrocities.html

45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued

Fires burn among bags and debris as passengers flee the Brussels airport terminal after two explosions in 2016 arab terrorist attack. 14 people died and dozens were injured.

The moment of capture of terrorist Salah Abdeslam in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels