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Maryam Frozan and her son, Mateen Elhamy, 6, were racially abused during a road rage incident in the Hornby Hub parking lot in Christchurch.
A Christchurch woman whose 6-year-old son was told to go to her own country says she wants the police to take incidents of racist abuse more seriously.
Maryam Frozan was pulling out of a Hornby Hub shopping mall parking lot at the same time as another motorist around 1:00 p.m. Sunday, so she turned back to make way for the other motorist.
That motorist, a woman in her 60s, honked several times and then got out of her car, approached Frozan’s car, poked her head out of the driver’s window, and verbally abused her and her son in an aggressive manner.
Police were able to locate the woman by her license plate and gave her a formal warning for threatening behavior. But Frozan says it is not enough and wants to accuse the woman.
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Frozan felt that no one was listening.
“The woman said [my son] to f … leave and return to their own country. He was born here in New Zealand.
“It was very, very horrible, at his age … behavior like that.”
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A younger man who was with the older lady “then tried to fight us.”
“They were very angry. We did not do anything.
“I said, ‘Is it because I have black hair?’ And she said yes. “
The woman left afterward, but Frozan lowered his license plate and spoke to mall security and then police when they arrived within an hour.
A complaint was filed with the police, “but they don’t do anything, we had evidence and everything.”
Frozan, who moved from Kurdistan a decade ago, said his son was so scared that he did not sleep that night, constantly talking about his “bad day.”
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Maryam Frozan says the incident left her feeling insecure and changed her view of New Zealand.
“You need to apologize to my son.
“Usually I teach her to be friendly and kind to people, and she destroyed my work that I did.”
It had ruined his experience of living in this “beautiful country.”
“I can’t feel safe here anymore. I can’t be friendly with people anymore. “
Hornby Hub manager Jason Marsden said it “looks like it started out as a bit of a parking rage” after both drivers clashed at the same time.
“It led to an altercation where there were complaints of racial abuse.
“We have a pretty mixed and diverse group at Hornby, and overall that works out really well.”
The mall had “zero tolerance for racial abuse.”
Police arrived “fairly quickly” and collected footage from security cameras. It was up to the police to follow up, he said.
A police spokeswoman said they received a report of the incident on Sunday afternoon.
“The victim was kept informed of the situation and finally decided not to proceed with the prosecution.
“Due to this and other police investigations, the most appropriate course of action was deemed to be to issue a formal warning letter to the other party for threatening behavior.”
Frozan questioned this.
“I did not say that. Of course I want to accuse her. “
