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Speaker 2: Now I reckon. Like so many of you who listened

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Speaker 2: I've got to say yesterday when I saw the vision

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Speaker 2: on social media of the Funny Bay Supermarket being broken into.

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Speaker 2: Now joining me on the line is Manuel Cotis, the

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Speaker 2: Funny Bay Supermarket, the IgA owner. Good morning to you, Manuel,

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Speaker 2: Mine Katie mat how are you going following on from

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Speaker 2: that terrible breaking over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I'm very tired, you know. I've got a phone call

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Speaker 1: at four point thirty in the morning. Well, the police

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Speaker 1: that my shop was broken into, came to the shop

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Speaker 1: and expected the worst. It is about four hours to

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Speaker 1: clean up a mess, terrible mess, you know. The It's frustrating.

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Speaker 1: It's I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed because at the

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Speaker 1: it's time that serious metal has been taken up and

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Speaker 1: the young youths, they've got to be controlled. We can't

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Speaker 1: it's not safe, it's dangerous. You know, we all got families,

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Speaker 1: We've got bran kids and and will fear. You know,

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Speaker 1: to put free on the table. They get you know,

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Speaker 1: they get bashed, They've been sped at, and you know

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Speaker 1: how long can this go on for? And you know

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And you know, Manuel, you and I have spoken

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Speaker 2: You were telling me not so long ago when I

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Speaker 1: That's o Katie Young Scott, you know this. This person

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Speaker 2: You know, I mean, what do we do, Manuel, I

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Speaker 1: We can't keep we can't keep run of the police.

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Speaker 1: professional guidance. I won't call it guidance because you know,

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Speaker 1: we've got to guide this young kids do a better

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Speaker 2: Well, you spot on, there's no doubt about that. We've

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Speaker 1: Well, it's precisely right, you know, it's time. It's time

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Speaker 1: that we've set enough is enough. None were talking. We've

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Speaker 1: done enough talking. We've been talking to you. You know, I've

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm putting better on behalf all the people.

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Speaker 1: You know. We're the families, you know, and we all

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Speaker 1: you know. And then it's time that whether it's the

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Speaker 2: Manuel has the Chief Minister, who's also your local member,

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Speaker 1: You, well, not not yet. One of his officers came

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Speaker 1: in this morning because because I've got no roller door

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Speaker 2: Yep, oh, spot on.

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Speaker 1: This is a political issue. It's not a racial issue.

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Speaker 1: It's an issue. We've got a bunch of young kids

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Speaker 1: it's time with that. Enough. We're not going to let

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and this is the thing Manuel, And as

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Speaker 1: Well, Katie, I agree with one hundred percent. It's it's

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Speaker 1: sudden let's look at it. Look the whole picture. Okay,

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Speaker 1: But the main thing is, you know, why are the

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Speaker 1: Do you want to say you simply can't go around

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Speaker 1: That poor lady. She's hills the nightmare. Yeah, people come

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Speaker 1: Why no, Now that's a fair got a waste of free?

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Speaker 2: It isn't fair.

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Speaker 2: Before I let you go, mate, I just want to

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Speaker 2: some beautiful Greek biscuits, you gave us lollies to take home.

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Speaker 2: You snuck my daughter a Fredo frog.

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Speaker 1: Mate. What I love.

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Speaker 2: About you and your wife and the beautiful people that

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Speaker 2: don't just love your business. You love your customers and

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Speaker 2: you know, what you do is wonderful, and the community

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Speaker 2: treat us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the crime. Words is there and nice.

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Speaker 1: But deep down I love kids my weakness. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: When I talk to you, all I can say, we're

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Speaker 2: Well, mate, I try my best, Yeah, I try my best,

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Speaker 2: you know, look, I really hope that that we're able

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Speaker 2: that the Chief Minister gives you a call and sits

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Speaker 2: down and really, here's what you've got to say. Because

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Speaker 2: you've been running that business for is it thirty five years?

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Speaker 1: Thirty five years, Katie, you know, I.

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Speaker 2: Think that it would be wonderful if he could have

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Speaker 2: a coffee with you, hear what you've got to say,

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Speaker 2: and hear about the impact that this kind of thing

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Katie, the police that came at

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Speaker 1: you know, that make you feel so important. They heard prize. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they's a quite with the people in going. It's just

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Speaker 1: a shame that they haven't got the payout to do more.

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Speaker 2: Well, Manuel, I really applive it is mate. I really

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time this morning. I know that you are

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Speaker 2: incredibly busy and and it's you know, I'm really sorry

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Speaker 1: Thank you, o Kadian. I have to see in the

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Speaker 1: shop one day. I'll have another biscuit again.

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Speaker 2: Very soon, very soon. Good on your man you I've

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: You too. Manuel cotis there and he's a lovely man.

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Speaker 2: His wife is a beautiful woman. They do such a

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Speaker 2: good job running that supermarket, and as I said, they

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Speaker 2: treat everybody so wonderfully in there. It doesn't matter whether

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Speaker 2: go in there to buy all your supplies for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: They are incredibly respectful of everybody and soul are all

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Speaker 2: of their staff. And you know, I know that the

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Speaker 2: and they are subjected to this kind of thing, it'd

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