The three French tourists beaten during a campervan robbery in Mangamuka, Northland, have spoken to stafff at the Dominion Post about their ordeal. The paper has named the men as Antonin Schopfer, 27, Guillaume Rey, 26, and Sebastien Vautier, 29. The friends say that the men who attacked them were posing as police officers. “The…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Stories: first hand accounts of migrant life in New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. For more Migrant Stories click here This tale is taken from an expat forum. The poster, a British tradesman who lives in Northland, has been in New Zealand for more than three years,…
Welcome to Kaitaia We’ve heard that a family of Swiss Tourists were attacked in Kaitaia, Northland in January, as far as we know the story never made it to the national press but it was reported by The Northland Age. Local moteliers Dave and Jay Galbraith have spoken publicly a number of times about the…
Unfortunately crimes against tourists in Northland don’t seem to be abating despite the widespread publicity that some recent incidents have attracted. Anke Kuballa, 20, and Marc Busch, 22, bought a touring van for $1,600 in Auckland and were driving it north to Whangarei a month later when the clutch failed. They paid $600 to a…
It’s taken well over a week for the news to leak out that a couple of German tourists were robbed in Northland, New Zealand on November 2. Why it has taken so long to report on something that happened a week last Monday is anybody’s guess, but the more cynical amongst us could speculate that…
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