A new wave of violence has struck lawless Alice Springs as a a teenager was set upon by axe-wielding youths in a horrific broad daylight attack.
Alice Springs Hospital worker Namfon Fon, who moved to the town from Thailand to be with her partner, posted a warning on Facebook following the assault of her son near Sammy’s Pizza on Monday afternoon.
The incident is just the latest in a string of violent attacks in the Outback town which is plagued by gangs of youths trashing businesses and robbing homes.
Ms Fon’s 16-year-old son was walking in the Alice suburb of Braitling when three young persons attacked him.
‘They have an axe and hit him multiple times in his face, stomach, leg and other parts of his body,’ she said.
Ms Fon’s son, 16, recovers in a local park with paramedics before being taken to hospital after he was set upon by three youths armed with an axe who struck him on his ‘face, stomach, leg and other parts of his body’
Alice Springs mum Namfon Fon has warned about the dangers of her town after her son was the victim of an axe attack in broad daylight near a popular pizza shop
Ms Fon said ‘luckily’ her son did not appear to have been cut by the axe’s blade, but that he ended up in hospital after police and paramedics arrived.
She also thanked locals who stopped to help her son as he recovered from the attack in a local park.
Ms Fon said it was ‘very sad to end up in ED after you get attacked by your own community’.
‘This town has become a nightmare for everybody,’ she said. ‘Stay safe.’
Despite violence and crime being part of Alice Springs life, the situation has worsened in the ten months since alcohol restrictions were lifted by the Northern Territory Government.
A campaign by local baker and activist Darren Clarke gained national headlines this week, forcing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to make a flying visit and impose partial alcohol bans.
Ms Fon works at Alice Springs Hospital since moving from Thailand to the town (above, violence filmed there last weekend) where where her teenage son was taken to emergency after he was attacked on an afternoon stroll
The attack on Ms Fon’s son took place in the same suburb where a 17-year-old allegedly carried out a vicious home invasion on a woman, 74, whose wrist was broken during the robbery.
Police have charged him and another male, 20, for a separate home invasion of a 75-year-old woman who was robbed while being threatened with a blunt weapon.
Alice Springs Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Rob Kent said it was ‘absolutely disgusting that two vulnerable members of our community have been preyed upon in this manner’.
A child care centre was also smashed up, forcing it to close down while forensic police attended the crime scene and tradespeople repaired the damage.
This comes a day after video emerged of a town pub battlefront on one of Alice Springs’s main streets last Saturday night with locals under siege by belligerent teenagers and adults.
The videos were filmed by a local nurse from her balcony of the Diplomat Hotel on Gregory Terrace.
Rachel Hale, who shot the videos from her balcony above the pub, said it was one of the most frightening nights of her life.
‘Kids taunting adults and spitting on ‘white c**ts’, stealing from cars out the front, very young children on the streets, disgusting violence, pack hunting and the level of hate displayed towards people in the firing line will haunt me,’ she said.
‘Police struggle to apprehend anyone – they run as soon as they see them. I feel sick to my stomach seeing this and also having to stay here.
‘Everything has closed, police have left, but the kids remain. Not much sleep – one of the most frightening nights of my life. It went on all night long.’
The footage showed an Aboriginal girl hurling abuse through the pub fence at patrons as they sat drinking in a pub beer garden.
‘You ugly, I’m prettier than you with my black skin, you white b***h,’ she yelled before taunting other patrons and calling herself an ‘African queen’.
Another teenage female spat through the fence on to a pub patron, yelling at the young man ‘You’re a white dog, you are, rooff rooff rooff’.
During a brief visit to the town last week, Mr Albanese announced new alcohol restrictions and promised $48.8 million over two years for programs to address the crime problem.
A young woman screams through the fence of the of the Diplomat Hotel in Alice Springs which has become a battlefront between drinkers and young people outside who are not permitted entry
Measures implemented included a ban on takeaway alcohol sales on Monday and Tuesday as well as limits on bottle shop opening hours.
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