Very strange and sad kindapping story

[Jaga]

I listened Polish news about it in the morning and it was hard to believe. A young son (25 years old) of the Polish businessman was kidnapped ~ 2 years ago. His parents did everything they could to get him back. They paid awful lots of money to police, to politicians and the police did not do anything.

The man was found dead. He was kept in terrible conditions, chained to the wall of the outdoor toilet place. He was fed with psychotropic drugs, finally after they received 300,000 Euro the guy was strangled.

here is more (in Polish):

wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,5097875.html

[Jaga]

here is the picture of the victim:



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there is even a strange twist. Apparently one of two people who were accused of kidnapping this guy was found in the prison cell dead. He hunged himself (or maybe somebody helped him) in the only place where the camera did not see him (in the sanitary corner)

[Jaga]

Three policemen have been taken into custody in this bizarre case of the kidnapping and death of Krzysztof Olewnik.

The police had the information who kidnapped him but they did not act. They were able to find a person who called the police and they let him go. There are so many bizarre development (like stealing all the information about the case in Warsaw street) that somebody had to be reponsible for it.


www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,75968,5162351.html

[rdywenur]

What is even more strange and sad is the article I read today of a father keeping his daughter in the cellar for 24 years and fathering 6 children before he was caught. This happened in Austria and something similar also in the same place.

[Jaga]

Chris,

I read about this other story. It is horrific. I think, everybody heard about this Austrian man.

For me Austria was always a hermetic society. People do not know about each other much. I visited a friend of mine, she was Austrial. She lived alone in her 3 room apartment. Nobody ever visited her. She was a nice girl, had a job but not a family there. Eventually she became a single mother, I am not even sure in what way the child was conceived, maybe just for a bank.

Anyways, having a child made her happy.

I was still wondering, why she was so isolated. The isolation may lead to strange developments.

[Atlantis5]

People are people as in Europe as with most known areas of the world. But, Austria? The land is of eye candy, but of whole, the people, ok, I would stand to do with out as a whole.

ok, ok, I am of racial, very bias and prejudicial. Of my weakness of that I admit, those d**n Österreichischerin will in short time surpass of any of my condemnations and this for sure. For our member friend of Herr George of here, with his hatred of my self, would in flash, and certainty, hold a great deal of irritations to that of Österreichische Grenzpolizie of that of those Österreichischerin with their innate irritation manners.

You will love this: I am on my motorrad of BMW, just my self, waiting in of line with a zillion other folks with families of screaming children, hot, tired with fathers and mothers sweating as with us all. Then this b---tard wisches to know for why of my visit to their dear land, if my insurance card is currant, if my toll sticker is currant {it is prominently displayed upon the eye protection wind screen} and if my insurance card is currant. And If my pass port is good? Ok, fine, enough is enough, I then begin to revv up my motor up and down the rev scale up to the point of over heat, then drop it down for cool down.

Still this bast---d is checking up and down to insure that I am a loyal German man. Then with some consternation upon his {their-they work in pairs} they must admit my self into their loused country for my 7 hours of travel through to Swiss.

What is to be gained of my deplorable description of Austria? The scenery is explicit, the people are people, the wisch for your money to be left and your self gone. they are for the most part, very aggressive and yet, wish to be viewed as friendship to all. A likely lie.

Charles

[Jaga]

Hello Charles,

I am not sure whether everything in Austria is so great. Here is the article which focuses on strange cases, all of them in Austria:
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3834569.ece

Less than a year after the Kampusch scandal shocked the world, details of a second case of long-term child abuse emerged. Three girls had been imprisoned by their mother for seven years. The girls, aged 7, 11 and 13 when their mother won custody of them, were eventually discovered living in filth. The mother, a middle-class lawyer, had suffered a nervous breakdown, taken the girls out of school and shut them away from the outside world, where they lived in total darkness among mouse droppings and urine. Psychiatrists have predicted that the eldest of the girls will never fully recover.

Then, this weekend, we find out that a seemingly respectable former engineer in his seventies has kept his 42-year-old daughter locked in his cellar since she was 19. The woman, who bore her father seven children during her captivity, was discovered only after one of the children she had with her father fell into a coma in hospital.

It is useful in this context to mention some other things going on in Austria that have been overlooked by the international press - including a series of investigations that threaten to envelop the Austrian police. These suggest a force so allegedly riddled with corruption and incompetence that even those responsible for handling the Kampusch case have been implicated.

There is also the country's apparent problem with institutional racism. There is concern over a number of deaths and injuries in police custody of foreign nationals. (There have been no convictions; Amnesty International has made a formal complaint.)

Then there are the controversial photographs that have surfaced of Jörg Haider, the former leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party; the increasing tendency of Austrian politicians to sue journalists who dare to look into their affairs; the BAWAG banking scandal - which resulted in the loss of billions of euros in questionable investments - and the revelation in 2006 that this well-to-do Alpine country had slipped five places in Transparency International's corruption index.

There is a theory that Austrian culture is somehow to blame for the cases of child imprisonment that have come to light. Certainly it is true that in two of these cases, neighbours admitted to reporters that they knew the perpetrators and victims of the crimes only by their surnames.

There is a petit bourgeous formality in Austria, a hangover from imperial times, an assumption that a respectable member of the community - a lawyer or engineer, for example - could never be the author of a serious crime. It explains why a mother of three can take her children out of school without generating much suspicion, for instance. And, conversely, why foreigners - especially foreigners of non-Austrian appearance - tend to be treated with, at best, scepticism. A native of Ghana or Turkey travelling on a Vienna tram can expect to have his or her ticket scrutinised by inspectors far more often than white, German-speaking passengers.