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30th July 2013, 06:31 AM
Gun-laden car's shoot-up right out of Bond movie
http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1375056633/862/8976862.jpg It was a lethal gadget right out of a James Bond movie: Remote-controlled gun barrels rigged behind the rear license plate of a car that spray bullets at an unsuspecting target.
But South African police say it was a possible attempt to kill Radovan Krejcir, a Czech fugitive who was sentenced in his country last year to 11 years in jail for tax fraud and has been linked to underworld figures in Johannesburg.
Krejcir emerged unscathed from last week's episode, which peppered his bullet-proof Mercedes Benz with impact marks and shocked veteran observers of South Africa's organised crime who thought they had seen it all. The empty, parked vehicle where the weapon was hidden burst into flames after the shooting, possibly destroying evidence.
"All my life is like James Bond stuff," Krejcir said with a chuckle in an interview with Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet. "That's how I live my life."
And who might want to kill him? At first, Krejcir reportedly said he didn't know. Then he said that if he had any theories, he wasn't saying
Full Story (http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/videos/8976819/Gun-laden-cars-shoot-up-right-out-of-Bond-movie)
http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1375056633/862/8976862.jpg It was a lethal gadget right out of a James Bond movie: Remote-controlled gun barrels rigged behind the rear license plate of a car that spray bullets at an unsuspecting target.
But South African police say it was a possible attempt to kill Radovan Krejcir, a Czech fugitive who was sentenced in his country last year to 11 years in jail for tax fraud and has been linked to underworld figures in Johannesburg.
Krejcir emerged unscathed from last week's episode, which peppered his bullet-proof Mercedes Benz with impact marks and shocked veteran observers of South Africa's organised crime who thought they had seen it all. The empty, parked vehicle where the weapon was hidden burst into flames after the shooting, possibly destroying evidence.
"All my life is like James Bond stuff," Krejcir said with a chuckle in an interview with Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet. "That's how I live my life."
And who might want to kill him? At first, Krejcir reportedly said he didn't know. Then he said that if he had any theories, he wasn't saying
Full Story (http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/videos/8976819/Gun-laden-cars-shoot-up-right-out-of-Bond-movie)