Denton, Texas, police are investigating a video released on Twitter last Wednesday night, but only via tweets in Arabic, in which a Saudi student appears to be threatened with a gun by an American room owner the student gave him rented 3 months ago.
The news was reported by only one American newspaper, so as not to clarify the details of what happened between the landlord and the tenant, which is the local newspaper, the Denton Record-Chronicle, and because nothing on the matter appeared in the “Saudis in Denton” website for Saudi students in the city, so he used “Al-Arabiya.net” with a useful piece in the newspaper news missing the student’s name, nationality and photo, plus a small information contained in 3 Twitter tweets, the most important of which is the one whose photo is published below, and written by the student born 28 years ago in Jeddah, according to his Twitter account Moh_1994_@, describing himself as a student. Disaster and crisis management.
The student said in his tweet that the owner pretended to be carrying a gun to protect himself
From the tweet, as from a video, it is clear that the problem between the two is related to the kitchen, as indicated by another tweet, written on Sunday by the Saudi tweeter @Milano_AlEnazi, in which he stated that the owner had asked for an additional amount from the student, outside the contract, to allow him to use the kitchen, and when he refused, he decided The landlord expelled him without returning the rent he paid. “The police sided with the student and declared that the landlord had no right to evict him because they had a contract,” he said.
Milano wrote a second tweet, in which he said the owner “used threatening methods to intimidate the student, including using white-skinned people to discipline him, including terrorizing him with weapons as he appeared in the video, but the student was able to photograph it and inform the police of what the owner of the house had done, and here things began to take a turn “another, especially after the videos reached the local media”, as he said.
“Are you going to shoot me?”
The owner of the building appears in the video presented below of the veiled threat, with a gun in his hand, as he climbs the stairs leading to the room of the student, who came out carrying his cell phone with him, to photograph him with it, then he asked if he knew what he was holding, that is the gun, and he replied: “You threaten me with it (. .) And if I go to the kitchen, will you shoot me?” After seconds of silence, he replied: “We’ll see what I’ll do. I didn’t threaten to shoot you (..) You think you’re very smart. You know what I’ll do.. Find him.” threatening him.
Referring to the newspaper story, Denton Police spokeswoman Allison Beckwith is said to have released a statement saying detectives will provide an update once their follow-up on the incident is complete, and explained, according to Al -The summary of Arabiya.net, what the newspaper quoted it, what the one who filmed it, that is the Saudi student. At first she didn’t want to press charges and no one was arrested,” she said.
However, the police “arrested the owner of the property after the video spread to the media, and released him on bail,” a Saudi economics graduate from an American university reported on “Facebook” last Sunday. of Rockford, Hamad Alkharraa, member of the Saudi Economic Association.
