A UN diplo­mat who was the vic­tim of an armed rob­bery in this coun­try says she is still com­ing to terms with the at­tack.

Four days af­ter Miri­am Aertk­er, head of the of­fice of the Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees (UN­HCR) here in T&T, was robbed at gun­point and her car stolen in Curepe, she at­tend­ed an of­fi­cial event in Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day night.

Asked by Guardian Me­dia how she had been cop­ing since the vi­o­lent in­ci­dent, the Ger­man diplo­mat said she “is still pro­cess­ing the sit­u­a­tion.”

Aertk­er de­clined to com­ment fur­ther.

On Sun­day at 8.50 pm, Aertk­er, along with busi­ness ex­ec­u­tive Jerus Mo­hammed, 38, were in a sil­ver Hyundai Tuc­son dri­ving along Fred­er­ick Street, Curepe, be­hind a white Nis­san Ti­i­da which sud­den­ly stopped, forc­ing them to come to a stop.

Po­lice said four masked men armed with guns came out of the Ti­i­da and ap­proached the vic­tims.

The ban­dits then re­lieved Aetk­er and Mo­hammed of their cell­phones, a quan­ti­ty of cash and a blue hand­bag be­long­ing to Aertk­er.
They al­so took the Tuc­son, val­ued at $55,000, be­fore es­cap­ing.

Po­lice said the stolen ve­hi­cle was found aban­doned on Bam­boo Dri­ve, Champs Fleurs, by of­fi­cers of the St Joseph Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) and St Joseph Mo­bile Pa­trol.
Of­fi­cers al­so re­cov­ered a cel­lu­lar phone and a wal­let in the ve­hi­cle. How­ev­er, Aertk­er’s hand­bag was not found.

Aertk­er took to Face­book af­ter the rob­bery, where she re­vealed the har­row­ing at­tack.

St Au­gus­tine MP Khadi­jah Ameen has called for the im­me­di­ate re­turn of the Po­lice Mo­bile Unit at Curepe Junc­tion fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent.