Spring French Quarter: --- Three Chinese nationals are now nursing severe head injuries at the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital on Monday night. According to information, reaching SMN News some youngsters on scooters went to the Hang Cheong Supermarket located behind the Gendarmerie in Spring French Quarter and attacked all three of the attendants that were in the supermarket working.The attack it is understood, took place around 7:30pm. Eyewitnesses to the crime said the robbers who were armed fired gunshots while carrying out the robbery. One bystander said two of the victims received gun butts on the head while another was stabbed in his head. "All three of the victims had head injuries and they were taken to the hospital by the ambulances." The attackers stole the monies that were in the cash register but the amount was not known.
In an invited comment proprietor of Hang Cheong said he does not know how badly his employees were injured. The man said he was at Grand Case in another Supermarket when he received a phone call telling him about the robbery. "When I reached the scene the doctor was already here and they had them in the ambulance, so I cannot say how badly they are injured." The proprietor said even though his supermarket is not far away from the gendarmerie in French Quarter he was robbed on several occasions. He said he is tired of changing cash registers and nothing ever came out of the investigations. The man who did not want to give his name to this reporter urged us to check and see how big is his robbery files at the Gendarmerie. SMN News could not reach the commandant for a comment at press time. Efforts made to contact the Vice Prosecutor were also futile.
About two hours after the robbery several gendarmes were seen on next to the ball field conducting a control. Several youngsters as well as grown men were being controlled since they were hanging outside another supermarket on Rue Lamegeot.