Kuala Lumpur: Former economy minister Rafizi Ramli today said that his 12-year-old son would have to undergo six months of medical tests to rule out the possibility that he was injected with anything dangerous during an attack at a Putrajaya mall yesterday.
The Pandan MP said doctors and police had yet to determine what the syringe contained, prompting a series of blood and food tests as well as extended hospital observation.
Rafizi said there were three possibilities: drugs or poison, which doctors had ruled out after observation; a virus such as HIV or hepatitis; or plain water.
“So far, there have been no immediate effects (for drugs or poison). I take comfort in that as a father, we can rule out drugs and poison,” he told a press conference in Parliament today.
However, Rafizi said the possibility of a viral infection could only be ruled out after “at least six months” of monitoring.
“We can only know after six months, and we will have to continuously monitor his behaviour,” he said.
Rafizi earlier revealed that his wife had received two threatening text messages from an unknown number this morning, reading: “Be quiet. If you continue, AIDS.”
He said he suspected that yesterday’s attack was linked to a case he was looking into, adding that he had met a group of whistleblowers just last week.
According to Rafizi, his son was dragged out of their family car by two individuals dressed in black and wearing full-face helmets and stabbed with a syringe.
The assailants escaped, while the boy was rushed to the hospital.
