{ {{Roland Kastler the founder of Germany Butchery in Kigali. Here he had visited IGIHE on Tuesday Afternoon.}} }
{{The Proprietor of {‘Germany Butchery}’ located near {Sulfo Industries} says his life has been in danger in the past three years after enduring several attacks from a business rival.}}
Mr Roland Kastler 54 a German national says he has lived in Rwanda for over seventeen years and has been married to a Rwandan woman for the past eleven years. The couple has two children all teenagers.
Speaking to IGIHE this afternoon, Mr Kastler narrated that before he established his own Butchery business he had been working at ‘La Galette’ also owned by Mike a German national married to a woman identified as Tsiapetraka Claudette a Malagasy national.
Tsiapetraka is accused by Kastler of making his life a hell on earth. Kastler suspects that the attacks and attempts on his life by Tsiapetraka are due to business rivalry.
“Tsiapetraka is jealous and has been provoking me in all manners. She just wants me to hit back and I get imprisoned,” Kastler said adding that this woman at one time found him taking hot coffee at a table and grabbed the cup and poured it directly into his face.
Kastler added, “Three months ago she hit my head me with a coke bottle and I fell down. She rushed to hit me with a sharp instrument and I dodged her then ran away. This woman is attempting to kill me.”
Recently on may 17, Kastler says he was attacked by Tsiapetraka when she found him inside the {‘Germany Butchery’} premises where she picked products worth Frw 25000 but refused to pay. Later she slapped me and broke my glasses worth U$1100.
Tsiapetraka is also accused of regularly attacking his Rwandan wife however; the Rwandan woman says she has persistently ignored her just to stay out of any trouble.
“I take this as business rivalry. I can’t hit back at her,” she says requesting her names not to be mentioned in the story.
Mr Kastler and wife say they have on several occasions reported the matter to Police and that Ms Tsiapetraka has always refused to respond to summon letters from Police.
The couple says, “we are worried of our safety and we want to remain safe. We want concerned authorities to help us fix this problem because it involves our lives.”
However, by press time, Tsiapetraka was reportedly seen at Muhima Police station.
Below Mr Roland Kastler is seen badly beaten and bruised after he was attacked by Tsiapetraka
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