According to foreign media reports on May 5, a South African woman and her boyfriend were fishing in the river, and suddenly the woman was shot. It turned out that the shooter had thought of the woman as a hippopotamus. At present, the injured woman has taken the man who fired the gun to court.
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The incident reportedly occurred in the town of Lefale in Limpopo Province, South Africa. On May 3, local time, black woman Ramokone Lina and her boyfriend came to a river in the town to fish. Just as they were quietly waiting for the fish to be hooked, a gunshot broke the calm. Ramokone was shot in the arm, and the two panicked, they quickly hid, then called the police and called an ambulance.
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Local police arrived at the scene and found that the person who fired the shot was a white farmer living in South Africa named Paul Hendrick van Zill. Police then questioned Paul, who said he had shot Him because he had treated Ramokone as a hippopotamus and her boyfriend as a monkey. A police spokesman said in a statement: "The arrested suspect claims he was shooting at the animal. "However, the local police do not believe this absurd explanation. Police seized Paul's two rifles, two pistols and two air guns at the scene and arrested him.
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Paul is currently facing charges of attempted murder and was released after paying 1,000 rand (about 400 yuan) in bail. As the case required further investigation, the hearing was postponed to May 18. After Paul's release, a group of anti-racist activists staged a protest outside the courtroom. Because the man who shot Paul was white and the one who was injured was black, they thought Paul was a racist and that he shot and injured someone on purpose.
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