One of the victims of the Christchurch tourist assault we wrote about 3 days ago has been named as British backpacker Nicholas Aubertin, aged 24. Nick was in the country on a year long working holiday. Unfortunately New Zealand is living up to its reputation for brutal and violent attacks on overseas visitors. Nicholas…
Lichfield Street, Christchurch A 20 year old German tourist by the name of Soenke was attacked and robbed in Christchurch after being turned away from a hospital on Friday night. He’d been holidaying in Kaikoura and developed an eye infection. Soenke was taken in an ambulance late at night to Christchurch hospital 2.5 hours away, presumably because…
the site of the attack in Whakatane Two reminders this festive season that poverty in New Zealand continues to make it a very unsafe tourism destination. A young German couple, sleeping in their tent in the small town of Whakatane (renowned for its gang activity) were beaten severely and robbed in the early hours of Boxing Day.…
In May we wrote about three French tourists, Antonin Schopfer, 27, Guillaume Rey, 26, and Sebastien Vautier, 29 who were beaten and robbed as they camped in Mangamuka, Northland. (See blogs Three French tourists beaten up in Northland Campervan Robbery, French tourists back in Northland to Help Catch Attackers and “Tourists Beaters up Un-Maori“) The…
A couple honeymooning in Auckland didn’t have the same Gold Medal rapid response that an American rowing team member got just three days later, when they too were burgled hours before leaving New Zealand. British newlyweds Simon and Sabine Greenslade were married in August in Germany and had been honeymooning in New Zealand. At the…
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