Police probing Rafizi for alleged ‘bomb’ remark
PETALING JAYA: Police have started investigations on PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli over a “bomb threat” he allegedly made at a ceramah, revealed Perak police chief Abdul Rahim Hanafi.
Rahim told a press conference that the Pandan MP was being investigated under Section 506 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation.
“We will call Rafizi in to take his statement,” he said.
A group of four people recently lodged police reports against Rafizi for allegedly threatening to “bomb Parliament” in one of his ceramah on June 9.
Rafizi had apparently said that Amanah’s candidate for Kuala Kangsar Dr Ahmad Termizi Ramli, a retired nuclear physicist, would hurl an “atom bomb” at the country’s leadership, should he be elected and make it into Parliament.
Rafizi said he considered the police reports against him “a joke” and hoped the police would not take his statement about the “bomb” seriously, as it was merely a metaphor he had used.
Rahim however disagreed, saying no leader of any political party should make such statements, even in jest.
“Even if he was joking, it is still a threat and we will investigate.
“I advise all parties and speakers in the Kuala Kangsar parliamentary constituency not to provoke or raise racial and religious issues which could threaten the peace,” he said.
On the by-elections itself, Rahim said to date, the police have received 16 reports and opened six investigation papers into various offences.
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