Ten people arrested in the past 1.5 months for throwing stones at cars in Tehran
Following the release of news of the arrest of a person who killed and injured several citizens by throwing stones at cars on Tehran's highways, the Tehran Police Commander announced the arrest of ten more people on the same charges in the past 1.5 months.
Hossein Rahimi, the police commander of Greater Tehran, told ISNA news agency on Friday, January 14, about the details of these arrests, saying that the "intent" and "severity" of these individuals' actions varied, and in one case, the police arrested a person who was trying to throw a 50-kilogram stone.
According to reports, capital police officers arrested a man on Thursday morning, January 13, who had been throwing rocks and pieces of cement blocks at passing vehicles on the Nawab Highway in recent weeks, resulting in the deaths of two people, injuries to six people, and damage to eight vehicles.
According to the Tehran police commander, this individual would lie in wait and throw stones at cars in places where the speed of the vehicles was very high, and this indicates that he did this with the intention of causing serious harm and killing people.
In a video of his confession released, the defendant in this case claims that he did not intend to kill others and only wanted revenge.
Stating that he did not know any of the victims, he said: "My intention was to make people to whom God gave everything understand that God gave me nothing and that because I suffer from this, they must suffer too."
This person further claimed that he had mental health problems and even had a case file at a hospital about this years ago.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, January 13, the Hamshahri newspaper reported the arrest of a 35-year-old man who had set fire to expensive cars in Tehran to "vent his anger" caused by poverty.
In an interview with the Hamshahri newspaper, this person, referring to the burning of five Benz and BMW cars in different parts of the city, said about his motives: "Because I couldn't see that my fellow man could buy this high-end car and drive it, but I don't even have the money to buy a regular, cheap car."
As inflation and commodity prices have increased in recent years, according to official announcements, poverty and class disparity statistics have increased in Iran, while social issues experts and police officials have repeatedly warned about the increase in crime rates and the lowering of the age of criminal responsibility in society.
Behrouz Mohebbi Najmabadi, a member of the Parliament's Program and Budget Commission, announced on Wednesday, January 12, that nearly twenty million people in the country are not in favorable conditions, and among them, about three million households live in "absolute poverty."
Mehrad Ebad, a member of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce delegation, also said on Thursday, January 13, in response to the Deputy Minister of Welfare's statement that the poverty line for a family of four is "four million tomans," that four million tomans is not the poverty line for a family, but rather the "death line."
According to Mr. Ebad, if a family wants to eat meat only a few times a month, they will have to spend several times four million tomans, and if they do not have a home in big cities, they will only have to eat dry bread.
Source: Radio Farda
