DUBAI // A drunk and jobless man who called Dubai Police and threatened to blow up the building where he lived if he was not deported to his country has got his wish.
Dubai Criminal Court convicted the 25-year-old Kenyan of issuing threats, overstaying his visa and consuming alcohol without a licence. “Yes sir, I did that,” he told judges at an earlier hearing.
However, he must first serve three months in jail for the first two charges and pay the Dh2,000 fine for drinking before he can go home.
On April 17 at 5pm, the man called the operations room from his mobile phone and threatened to blow up the building in Naif.
“He said he would do so if we didn’t send him back to his country,” testified an Emirati policeman, 28.
Police checked the mobile number and found it was registered under the caller’s name and that he entered the country on October 18 last year and had been living illegally after he was sacked from his job as a security guard at a company in Dubai.
The man was arrested the same day near his home and was taken to Al Qusais Police Station, where he admitted making the call.
“He told us he was jobless and made the call so he could be prosecuted and deported,” added the policeman.
The man confessed to prosecutors and in court.
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