Filmmaker Sibalhe Nkumbi, who is studying in Europe, was in
Amsterdam to review a friend’s art exhibition when the incident – which
was caught on video – took place on Saturday.
She
was checking out of her Airbnb late when the host lost his temper and
threw her down the stairs. He had been summoned by his wife. In the
video, he can be heard shouting, “Out, out”, before pushing her down the
stairs. .
“We knew we were late,” she
said in a video posted to YouTube today, having been discharged from
hospital. “We heard the bell ring. The lady was clearly upset… she
said this is not acceptable, you need to pack and leave now. I
apologised profusely for us being late.” .
Nkumbi
says she and her companions were in the middle of leaving when the
woman returned with her husband, who was visibly angry and, she says,
abusive. “I remembered asking, ‘Why are you being so emotional, we are
leaving,” she says. .
She says that he
called them “you people” and said “you are not the queen you think you
are… this is not Africa. “Any person of colour that reads this and has
witnessed racist attacks you know when it happens to you,” she says. .
“And
the perpetrator always makes sure they say something vague… so they
can’t prove anything. “If this had been a white person, I can guarantee
you this would have turned out differently.” .
She
says that she resolved to say nothing and was leaving quietly, when the
man moved to grab her as she passed him on the stairs. .
“I
don’t remember how it happened,” she says. “I woke up in hospital, in
pain. And then I got the video of the story. Everyone was freaking out,
the police came to question me.” .
Nkumbi
says she sustained a concussion, has a large bump on the back of her
head and is bruised across her face and body. On the video, she shows
large bruises all over her arms that she says were caused by the man’s
grip.
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