Perpetrators Of Stabbing Kebab Sellers To Criticality In Serang Banten Turns Out To Often Extorte Traders

Kapolresta Serang Kota Kombes Pol Sofwan Hermanto (center) when revealing the stabbing case of a kebab seller in the Hall of the Satreskrim Polresta Serang Kota, Saturday (10/9/2023). (HO)

SERANG - Officials from the Serang City Police, Banten Province, arrested the perpetrator with the initials FA (33) who stabbed the Tukri kebab seller in Serang City. The motive for the stabbing was because he was upset that he was not given a free kebab. Serang City Police Chief Kombes Sofwan Hermanto said the FA perpetrator was arrested by the Serkot Police Criminal Investigation Unit yesterday at around 12.00 WIB at the house of the perpetrator's friend in Taktakan District, Serang City. The stabbing incident began when the perpetrator ordered a kebab from the victim but did not pay for it. Because he did not pay, the victim took his order again. This suddenly made the perpetrator red and immediately stabbed a knife into the victim's body. After stabbing the victim, the perpetrator immediately fled using a motorbike. The victim was taken to Drajat Prawiranegara Hospital in Serang for treatment. "The victim was stabbed right in the chest or solar plexus, ribs and arms. In ulu hat, it is very serious because several more centimeters have been to the heart until now the victim is still being treated and is in critical condition," he said. He said the perpetrators of the action did not only happen once, but it was customary for the perpetrators to ask for merchandise from street vendors in the city of Serang. "At the time of the incident the perpetrator was also under the influence of alcohol and tramadol, and based on the examination, it was true that the perpetrators had become a habit of harassing street vendors in Serang City," he said. Sofwan said that the temporary investigation of the perpetrators in groups and the police through the Serkot Police Criminal Investigation Unit will continue to hunt down perpetrators of thuggery and other crimes.

As a result of his actions, the FA was detained and subject to Article 351 paragraph (2) of the Criminal Code with a maximum imprisonment of five years.