18 Aug, 2022 @ 16:00
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Wheeled marauder: Wheelchair-bound Dutchman mugs German tourist in Spain’s Palma de Mallorca

Young Disabled Man In Wheelchair Walking Park
young disabled man in wheelchair walking park

A DISABLED Dutchman stalked two German tourists then punched one in the face and stole his wallet before racing away at high speed in his wheelchair.

Joseff M. 56, didn’t let the fact he was in a wheelchair stop his criminal plan when he followed the tourists through the Plaza del Olivar in Palma.

Without warning, the thief punched his 62-year-old victim in the face before making his getaway, with the Germans in hot pursuit as he bounced over the cobbles in the market square.

A National Police patrol spotted the commotion and joined the chase, eventually catching and arresting the Dutchman.

He now stands accused of an alleged crime of robbery with violence.

His victim was taken to hospital by ambulance bleeding profusely, while the attacker also got an ambulance ride because police vehicles are not equipped to handle wheelchair-bound people. But his destination was the police station rather than the hospital.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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