Farm worker tried to commit mass murder

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Farm worker tried to commit mass murder
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A farm worker from Riversdale, Andries Stoffels, appeared in court on a charge of malicious damage to property.

Meanwhile, he tried to commit a massacre, and it means that the police once again presented the wrong complaint to the court.

The accused in this case threw the herbicide Gramoxone or paraquat, into a milk tank on his employer’s farm.

The poison is so potent that 2,000 people could have died if it had not been detected in time.

Dr. Gerhard Verdoorn of the Griffon Poison Information Center also criticized the police complaint. “Stoffels may not only be charged with malicious damage to property. Paraquat is the most toxic of all pesticides. There is no antidote. If you drink it, it’s goodbye, mate.” He said people who ingest the herbicide and do not immediately regurgitate, will die in a painful way.

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