Friday, October 28, 2011

Hero father brings his daughter's murderer to justice

30 years after a teenage girl was sexually abused and killed, her father kidnapped her murderer and brought him into France where he has been turned over to the authorities to stand trial for his crimes. Apparently, previous attempts to have the authorities extradite the murderer from Germany to France had been fruitless, so the father engaged goons to kidnap the accused and bring him into France. The father will be prosecuted for the kidnapping, but I can imagine that seems a small price to pay.

I love that Charles Bronson-style mettle, that he stuck with it and would not just let it go as long as his daughter's murderer walked free. I think no one would have blamed the father if he had simply put the man down like a rabid dog, so kudos on the restraint of having merely left the bastard bound and bleeding in the street after tipping off French police to pick him up.

Here's hoping the court goes easy on the father for his actions, and brings their most severe of punishments to the other.

8 comments:

daniels said...

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. - "Bryan" in Taken

Joanna said...

I'm betting most of the witnesses against the father will suffer sudden-onset partial amnesia, rendering them absolutely useless to the prosecution.

Matt G said...

"Here's hoping the court goes easy on the father for his actions, and brings their most severe of punishments to the other."

You realize that you're referring to the same folks who harbor Roman Polanski, right?

Old NFO said...

Matt DOES have a point... sigh...

FHB said...

Awesome!!

Guffaw in AZ said...

You know my position!

Gary said...

I hate to be the wet blanket, but this is France and the EU we're talking about here, the folks who care so much about such things they can't seem to find a way to extradite the worst kind of murderer from Germany to France. These are the people whose dear hearts bled so bad for the poor Locherbie bomber, they released the murdering bastard back to Libya to a hero's welcome. This ain't Texas.

I don't expect a great ending to this tale. The father, after all, committed the really egregious crime of ursuping the police powers of the state. The EU autorities won't look kindly upon it. The other guy just tortured and murdered someone and probably was the victim of some appalling social injustice or psychic dysfunction, factors that really ought to arouse our sympathies and mitigate punishment.

The bottom line is this: surprisingly severe punishment for the father and astonishingly lenient punishment for the murderer. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.

Jay G said...

They would never find enough pieces to ID the body.

All I'll say.