Focusing on Golriz is cruel and glib
A shoplifting complaint against former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman is understood to relate to an incident where she was allegedly seen placing items into a tote bag at an Auckland supermarket.
The Herald first reported on Wednesday that a police investigation was under way into a complaint of shoplifting, understood to have allegedly occurred at a Pak’nSave supermarket in Auckland’s Royal Oak in late 2024.
A source told the Herald when the former MP was in the Royal Oak supermarket her manner of shopping, in particular the way she was carrying items, aroused the suspicion of store security officers monitoring shoppers.
She was allegedly seen putting some grocery items in a tote bag and other items into a handbag.
The Herald understands that as she approached the checkout she was stopped by store security who asked her to empty out all the bags she was carrying.
Look.
I appreciate that those who despise the Greens and hate non white women are having a field day.
I appreciate that.
To have Golriz involved in another shop lifting event must be mana from heaven for the redneck ZB Troll farm, I get that.
However, dare I suggest that focusing on Golriz is cruel and glib.
As a politician that scrutiny was justifiable and righteous when the first lot of allegations came out, but she is a private citizen now and if these allegations are true, she clearly has a problem that she urgently needs help with.
The almost sexual frisson many on the hateful Right are working themselves up in a lather over these latest allegations says way more about their damaged spite than it says anything about Golriz.
We have an economy that is tanking, climate change that is over whelming and the most racist legislation in a generation in front of us alongside rising poverty.
Do you honestly think shitting Schadenfreude on Golriz is the most important issue you tiny spiteful clowns?
I’m old school, I fight like hell until the person is knocked down, but after they go down I have no interest in hitting them further.
Many of the redneck ZB hate trolls seem to feel that it’s only when a person goes down that they really start getting brutal.
It’s a cultural cowardice that is ugly.
Focusing on Golriz when there is so much more important things to debate and discuss is cruel and glib.
If these allegations are true, I hope Golriz gets the help she needs.
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I wouldn’t have thought it was shoplifting until you didn’t pay. I wonder if an image of her was already loaded on the facial recognition system they use.
The Crimes Act is more broad than that, going as far as ‘using or dealing with any property with intent to deprive any owner permanently of that property’… which would certainly include, say, sticking some overpriced produce down your b*ttcrack. Obviously rather more ambiguous against someone who put some of their shopping in their handbag because they only bought one shopping bag into the supermarket and it turned out they should have bought two to have enough space.
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM329897.html
It should be noted that the management of Foodstuffs is extremely supportive of the zionist entity and supports funding their policy of raping and killing kids by selling ‘israeli’ products, so that may explain the charges.
Everything is political these days you could be right, even that word! And cynicism and distrust reigns and must because of the way society has regressed, and buyer and seller look with disfavour on each other. I suggest if one can find a fair marketer handy to you whose staff are allowed to say a few pleasant words, who haven’t got facial recognition or hovering suspicious personnel, then adopt that store and do right by them and vice versa, and it should be a good and useful relationship.
That’s what I am doing – I know the people, and talking to someone recently met, when they told of a customer giving a feminish bloke there a hard time, I knew the person. He’s a nice fellow; others there are good and have helped when needed. I don’t like supermarkets in theory but in practice they can be classless meeting places and a good experience, eg for short or old people, those who are tall are helpful with the top shelves!
It’s still not normal to put things in your handbag before going to the checkout….. why didn’t she use a trolley or basket like everyone else. Shoplifting is a big problem for supermarkets and some people are quite brazen about it. With her background she can’t afford to repeat her criminal behaviour
I quiet often use my own bag rather than the trolleys or basket and remember the supermarkets use a system called ullege where they insist supply over the order to offset any shoplifted product.
You’re right, while supermarkets are a big problem to New Zealanders and I encourage people to responsibly robin hood from Foodstuffs and Countdown, Golriz should avoid it or be especially careful.
Agreed Martyn.
The first reports of this alleged offender had name suppression. It should have stayed that way.
If true she deserves sympathy and understanding. The question is did she leave the store without paying?
Leave her alone full stop
Why ? I bet if she was in the National Party you would be less sympathetic. She probably needs help but sweeping things under a carpet just because of who you are is not on.
Those that do it in the National party would never get the same media attention, that’s the rub.
If she was in the National Party she would have name suppression!
I don’t think she should be left entirely alone, she did support the terrorism against the government of Syria that allowed Al Qaeda and ISIS to take over with the assistance of their ‘israeli’ masters.
Yeah 100% Martyn and all above comments. This is just mean and unnecessary and poor Golriz she is not well, with a very difficult issue to deal with that doesn’t gain much sympathy whatsoever. They’ll be chanting lock her up soon. And if she didn’t leave the store without paying, it’s not shoplifting.
Just putting items in your bag isn’t a crime. Well said Martyn, you don’t kick people when they are down.
“Just putting items in your bag isn’t a crime. ”
I presume that they’ll have to prove intent beyond reasonable doubt, which is a high hurdle. I can’t see how they can do so against good defence counsel, beyond appealing to suspicion, prejudices and innuendo.
The prosecution needs to prove intent to permanently deprive.
“As she approached the checkout”
So why didn’t they chop her hands off as she entered the store, that would have saved everyone embarrassment.
we all put items in tote bags
Why ? I bet if she was in the National Party you would be less sympathetic. She probably needs help but sweeping things under a carpet just because of who you are is not on.
I caught the shoplifting bug from a friend at intermediate school and a few weeks later after trying and failing to explain to my mum how I managed to get a new toy with no money, confessed by fault and have not stolen anything since. Apart from the occasional grape that gets into my mouth before the checkout once every couple of years.
I hope that she can sort out her issue quickly although the media attention would not help.
“If these allegations are true, I hope Golriz gets the help she needs”
True this
This is difficult. There are rules we all live by and respect because to not do so would be untenable for us all. The issues appear when we enforce remedies against rule breakers. Golriz appears to be a serial rule breaker. I’d expect our remedial system shows any necessary understanding but does not treat her any differently than it would you and I.
Brown, women politicians who get in some sort of strife, or just say too much–Meteiria Turei, Marama Davidson, cop it the most like Kiri Allan also.
The Natzo ranks have so many dodgepots that blithely continue on like ‘lets go out clubbing…’ Sam, the bed leg basher and Barbara Kureiger–no friend of innocent farm animals.
At the time of Golriz “frock lifting” issue many pointed out her illness and meds can come along with some mental/behavioural side effects. People were out to get her from her arrival in politics, and she endured some of the nastiest threats bar Jacinda Ardern. So there is no need to raise this type of crap, the right wing snipers and underwear sniffers just cannot help themselves though.