Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro was allegedly one of the planned targets of twin brothers Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie who are accused of terrorism. This is one the 12 counts contained in a 13-page provisional indictment against the identical twins. On Tuesday, the Thulsies appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court‚ where their case was postponed to next month. The 23-year-old brothers allegedly attempted to travel to Syria to join Islamic State and allegedly made plans to attack the US‚ UK‚ Russian and Jewish interests in SA. In the indictment the state alleges that Shapiro‚ who works under the pseudonym Zapiro‚ was one of these targets. "The said terrorist activities would have been perpetrated using firearms‚ explosives and possibly poisons and would have been directed against the High Commission of the UK in Pretoria‚ the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Pretoria‚ the Embassy of the United States of America in Pretoria‚ the First Secretary to the French Mission in SA (...
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