PETALING JAYA: Former economy minister Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli has questioned the progress of investigations into the attack on his son on Aug 13, 2025, a year after the incident.
The Pandan lawmaker claimed that the case had simply gone quiet despite the existence of closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage and a telephone number used to send threatening messages.
He said the Home Minister had informally told him who was suspected of masterminding the attack, but denied this when asked to respond publicly in Parliament.
“Attacks like this may be forgotten by the authorities and those entrusted with responsibility, but they can never be forgotten by the victims’ families.
“Never in our country’s history has a child been attacked and a wife threatened simply because of her husband’s political stance.
“I understand the message they were trying to send through the attack. There is a group that wanted to intimidate my wife into forcing me to retire from politics if she did not want to continue facing threats,” he said in a Facebook post on Friday (Aug 14).
Rafizi’s son was previously attacked when he was dragged away and jabbed with a syringe at a shopping centre in Putrajaya last year.
Rafizi said the incident occurred as he, his wife and their son were about to enter their car to leave the shopping centre.
He said the attack involved two men dressed entirely in black and wearing helmets that completely covered their faces.
Rafizi added that giving in to such threats would be tantamount to complicity in allowing wrongdoing and crime to occur with impunity in the country.
He said that if such an attack could happen to the son of a former minister in a public place, similar methods of violence and intimidation could also be used against ordinary Malaysians.
“I am grateful to my wife and family for understanding.
“If anyone condemns me for taking a political path that now differs from Pakatan Harapan’s, I hope they - who are surely mothers or fathers themselves - will reflect on how they would feel if this happened to their child.
“All this happened under the present government. I will mark Aug 13 every year until those who carried out the attack and the people behind them are brought to justice,” he said.
