MANADO - The Manado Police Resmob on the Road (ROTR) team has arrested five men suspected of being the perpetrators of the persecution that occurred in Banjer Village, Manado, North Sulawesi, which went viral on social media. The Head of Public Relations of the North Sulawesi Police, Kombes Jules Abraham Abast, said the alleged perpetrators were secured in their respective homes. The five perpetrators were FK (18) and AP (19) residents of Singkil District, then WN (19), RP (22), and BL (18), residents of Tuminting District. He said the case of abuse was experienced by a man named Reza (21), a resident of Banjer Village, Environment VII, on Wednesday, February 22 at around 03.30 WITA. Early that day, the alleged perpetrators drank alcoholic liquor while making a fuss by ringing a motorcycle in front of the victim's house. Feeling disturbed, the victim reprimanded the alleged perpetrators from the second floor of his house. "However, the alleged perpetrators did not accept the reprimand, then entered the house and went up to the second floor, then tortured the victim using a sharp weapon, a badik knife," said Abast in Manado, Antara, Thursday, February 23. Abast said the victim then fled by jumping from the terrace of the second floor of his house, while the alleged perpetrators then fled on a motorbike. “The victim suffered stab wounds to his right hand. The victim and his parents then reported to the Manado Police SPKT a few moments after the incident,” he said. Receiving information about the incident from residents via social media, continued Abast, the Manado Police TOTR team immediately conducted an investigation. The team also managed to pocket the identities of the alleged perpetrators, then arrested them in their respective homes. The team also found a badik knife used by one of the alleged perpetrators to persecute the victim. "The alleged perpetrators along with evidence of a badik knife with a length of about 60 cm were then secured at the Manado Police Headquarters for further examination," said Abast.

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