{"id":1236474,"date":"2023-09-30T01:12:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T01:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=93817"},"modified":"2023-09-30T01:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T01:12:32","slug":"nz-election-2023-police-investigate-after-invasion-of-te-pati-maori-candidates-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/30\/nz-election-2023-police-investigate-after-invasion-of-te-pati-maori-candidates-home\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ election 2023: Police investigate after invasion of Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori candidate\u2019s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/\"><em>RNZ News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand police are investigating after the home of Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori election candidate Hana-R\u0101whiti Maipi-Clarke was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/499064\/candidate-s-home-broken-into-vandalised-threat-left-behind\">invaded, vandalised, and a threatening letter<\/a> left behind.<\/p>\n<p>They said the burglary of a Huntly home was reported to police on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori issued a statement saying it was the third incident to take place at Maipi-Clarke&#8217;s home this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/499064\/candidate-s-home-broken-into-vandalised-threat-left-behind\"><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> Te Pati M\u0101ori candidate&#8217;s home broken into, vandalised, threat left behind<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=NZ+elections\">Other NZ election 2023 reports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The candidate for Hauraki-Waikato said the attack was premeditated and targeted, and politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Danger on the campaign trail had increased because of race baiting and fearmongering from right-wing parties, Maipi-Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the attack, she was not scared, she told <i>The Hui&#8217;<\/i>s Hauraki-Waikato debate.<\/p>\n<p>However, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has dismissed claims his party was race baiting, and increasing danger for candidates on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Not responsible&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nPeters told <i>Newshub Nation<\/i> that notion was wrong, adding that he was not responsible for the actions of other people.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would never work with Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori said it was working with police to find a person who broke into their youngest candidate&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said the party was outraged and it was seeing more abusive behaviour in this election than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You go at one of our mokopuna, you go at all of us. And it doesn&#8217;t matter how different we think, when we see our mokopuna being abused, we will unite and it will have the absolute contrary affect of what I think perpetrators are trying to do when they&#8217;re individually picking off on our youngest, on one of our babies &#8230; it&#8217;s disgusting,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The party was looking into improving security for candidates to prevent future attacks, she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2023\/09\/30\/nz-election-2023-police-investigate-after-invasion-of-te-pati-maori-candidates-home\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ News New Zealand police are investigating after the home of Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori election candidate Hana-R\u0101whiti Maipi-Clarke was invaded, vandalised, and a threatening letter left behind. They said the burglary of a Huntly home was reported to police on Monday. On Friday, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori issued a statement saying it was the third incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69119,50,67810,51242,479,5,69120,69121,6,7,255,68299,53295,56024,358,12,13,14,68578,784,368,417,1743,48807,31877,43436],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237139,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236474\/revisions\/1237139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}