Dear Editor,
Patrick began working on Michel Helligar’s apartment building with Paul, better known as Cat, from Dominica. While Patrick was working there Sablon will tell them to send home Patrick and give him the job. This happened many times. Sablon was told that they have enough people to work.
One day, in January 2015, Patrick had a marijuana cigarette. Paul tried to take it from Patrick, but didn’t succeed. Patrick didn’t use it, and this made Paul very upset; from that day all hell broke loose between Paul and Patrick.
From then, Patrick decided not to go to work with Paul anymore. He started to help out at the Chinese shop Wing Da. The reason also why Patrick left from Michel Helligar is that Michel was not paying Patrick as the law is stipulated. Most of the time Patrick will go to Michel to ask for money. Michel went to Patrick at many occasions asking him to come back to work with him because he needed him. Patrick told him no.
In the meantime, Sablon and Paul became a tag-team: almost every day Sablon will go by the Chinese shop telling the China lady to let Patrick go home because he can’t protect her; she must take him (Sablon) – he can do a better job.
Patrick will start to curse him. Eventually it started with death threats. He and Paul will go to the shop and harass Patrick almost every day.
Sablon will tell Patrick “look how you dress every day – you have on the same clothes.” Patrick will curse him and tell him that’s none of Sablon’s business.
Paul, Sablon and some of Sablon’s friends will sit on the wall across the road and all we can hear is about David and Patrick. David is an easy target because he rides a bike. Paul was going to get a young man from French Quarter to hire him to kill Patrick and David. The young man’s nickname is Kaka.
David heard Sablon said we can catch David easily when his son comes by him.
Sablon told Margarita with a loud voice, he’s going to kill David. She, Margarita, told him no, no, you can’t do that, because I love him, and he started to curse her.
When Sablon and Margarita moved into the apartment, I was off-island. The electricity and water in the garage are for my account. Margarita would wash her car which cost me NAf. 40 extra to pay GEBE.
Sablon was fixing a neighbour’s car on the side of the road, with his extension cord plugged into my receptacle in the garage, also his laptop plugged into my receptacle. I have to pay those bills. When I came home and saw what he was doing I asked him what are you doing here? He came and pulled them out and said sorry.
The garage is a two-port garage. Miss Margarita parked in the garage. David was driving a dump truck from Windward Roads. He could not park in the garage. So he asked Patrick to call Miss Margarita to come and straighten her car so he can park the dump truck. She took 3/4 hour before she came downstairs to straighten up the car. Instead of parking the car straight, she drove out of the garage like a mad woman and said she doesn’t have to park in the garage because all you is trouble. From then she never parked her car in the garage.
Patrick was home alone working on his laptop. From the corner of his eye, he saw a hand moving towards the doorknob. Patrick got up and peeked through the curtain. There was Sablon with a cement bucket with fine sand in his left hand and trying to open my door with his right hand, was my door unlocked he would enter my home and do whatever he wanted to do or steal whatever he could find to steal.
Patrick went outside through the next door and asked Sablon what are you looking for and he said, stammering, I didn’t know you was home. I will call the police. Then Sablon said you don’t need to call the police. Sablon climbed back over the porch, rest down the cement bucket in the garage where it was and left the premises. Since then I put a lock on the gate.
After the hurricane I will supply the tenants with water from the cistern which is on my porch. Sablon told Patrick he’s coming to steal some water. Patrick told me what Sablon said. I told Patrick if he comes for water, I will give him. I cannot refuse people water. Sablon came into the yard with a strange man. I told Sablon he can come for the water, but that man have to say outside the yard, because I don’t know him. Sablon and the man started calling me more wicked witch. When Patrick heard them, he went for the machete. There is where both of them started calling Patrick fassy. And Sablon still calling me wicked witch. Sablon said that he saw me around 3:15am dressed in pure black going down my stairs and went to throw something in the neighbour’s yard. I told him those same lies are going to get you behind bars.
Every day I ask myself what’s next. Because here we don’t have peace of mind for Sablon, Paul and Margarita.
On the 20th of October during the morning hours, Patrick was at the Chinese shop Wing Da.
Tony who works with Paul (Cat) went into the supermarket, went by the freezers not for Paul to see him and call Patrick. He told Patrick I don’t want nobody to call me a snitch. But I want to put you on your guard. They are planning to shoot you tonight when you are walking going home from the shop.
When Patrick was coming home that evening he happened to get a ride from an ex-detective. Patrick explained him what was told to him. He told Patrick I will drop you in front your gate. When you get inside call the police station. He was told they can’t come for stupidness. You must come to the station tonight or tomorrow morning. In the meantime there were four men in dark clothing around a car, around the corner from where we live. One was Sablon and Paul, don’t know who the others were. Shortly after Sablon was going home from the car. I heard cursing. Then Sablon started cursing me. Patrick was cursing, David was cursing, Sablon was cursing.
In the meantime I was on the step to going into the apartment. I heard a shot. I heard Sablon screaming to the top of his voice telling Margarita call the police, call the police. David shoot me. Call the police, call the police. Patrick make David shoot me. Then Sablon and Margarita came out on the porch and Sablon said it’s not over. Margarita asked Patrick if he want her to call the boys for him. Sablon said when he comes out of the hospital and he’s strong enough he’s going to take his machete and chop up me and my boys. I would like the law to question both Margarita and Sablon who the boys are.
Sablon even hid cocaine in a cent bag in the garage. My sons could have been locked up for it.
We have had a week consecutive every morning when we get up there is no water. One of us has to go downstairs to turn on the main water valve. After a few days one of my sons placed a note on the valve telling whoever to please stay off the …. Pipe. From that day it never happened again.
David got a little Subaru from a French lady. He was working on it from time to time. All windshields were intact. One morning we wake up and the front windshield was broken. From time to time there were scratches all over the car. Then there were footsteps, large footsteps on the hood on the top of the car. Oil thrown on the car and the wall in the garage.
Sablon went away on vacation with his little daughter. Paul (Cat) started saying when Sablon comes back he will be very strong. Sablon went to set up himself. Nobody can’t touch Sablon.
I am living under constant fear. Every day I am asking myself what’s next.
From time to time also Margarita will go to Wing Da supermarket and verbally harass my son Patrick.
Since this incident of October 20, 2015, Margarita went to Wing Da supermarket and told Patrick just now you are getting the bill.
Patrick asked her what …. bill you are talking about.
Margarita mentioned in The Daily Herald of October 22, 2015, that her husband Sablon is the main breadwinner of the home and pays the bill. Just a few months ago there was a dispute between the two of them. They both were at the top of their voices 6:00am.
Margarita told Sablon I cannot support you, your child and a dog. If you don’t go and get yourself a job, you have to go. She is a casino addict.
On October 9, 2015, Patrick was not at the supermarket Wing Da. Sablon went to the supermarket and dragging down Patrick and David’s name. As soon as Patrick got back to the supermarket it was told to him.
On Tuesday, October 10, 2015, at 1:55am, a tall man dressed in full black with hoody came in from my gate, the gate was locked and he turned back in the same direction he came from.
On Wednesday, October 11, 2015, Patrick was walking down the road in Union Farm. Margarita was driving her Ford jeep coming up the same road with Sablon sitting in the passenger’s seat. Margarita drove as to knock down Patrick then continued up the road to go home.
An Indian gentleman who saw what happened told Patrick she tried to knock you down. Sablon is known to the Gendarmes on the French side. He cannot go to French Quarter because of him being a menace to people over there.
Margarita said that my children will taunt Sablon. Is she always with Sablon? It is Sablon and Paul who are always taunting my boys right in front the building where we live, across from the construction site.
The same night of the shooting incident, Margarita had the biggest mouth. She was saying how we have to get out of the apartment. She called the landlord who lives in Texas USA the same night.
The landlord called me a few hours later and told me that she heard that one of my sons shot her tenant. I said yes. She said she will make a decision about the property.
The landlord called me two days after and told me that I have to leave her property, but I will receive a letter. One of the landlord’s brothers brought me the letter on the 23rd of October. 2015, telling me that I have to vacate her premises by end of October, 2015.
Denies Cannegieter
