Seems like Mr. C ain’t too happy with the way Korean prosecutors and reporters have handled his case:
“The Korean prosecution went public with elements without measuring their consequences,” the lawyer added, stating he was surprised by the “media and diplomatic frenzy deployed in Korea about this case.”
Well, in Korea’s defense, it’s not everyday in Korea that someone finds two frozen babies in a foreigner’s fridge.
He also mentioned the possibility of an “economic manipulation, staged to discredit” Mr. C., a high-level engineer for an American company based in Seoul.
If that were true, somebody deserves credit for going through a lot of effort. I’ve always felt cooking books was a lot easier than sticking dead babies in someone’s freezer.
Anyway, it looks like this case may take “months” before getting underway, and the French couple have no desire to return to Korea:
However, when taking into accounts problems related to translation and summer vacations, it may take “months” before elements held by South Korean authorities reach French investigators, Pantz added.
The South Korean police declared they wanted the French couple back in Seoul for interrogation.
“Considering the media frenzy around this case in South Korea, my clients do not wish to return there, and intend to stay in France for the time being,” stated Morin, their lawyer.
Now, what I’m wondering is how long it will take certain segments of the media/netizen community to seize on the fact Mr. C works for an American company to blame the United States for this mess?
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Hey, if they want, I can help for the translation… for a fee of course
Would that lawyer be able to say with a straight face that had a crime like this occurred on French soil, there wouldn’t have been a similar public spectacle in the French media?
I mean, c’mon now!
Mr C. and his wife must be presumed innocent until proven otherwise and are fully entitled to a proper legal defense. Had his (their?) lawyer said as much—such as, “My client, as a French citizen, prefers to work with French authorities in France,” that’d be fine and straight up. But blaming the media and tossing out other assorted red herrings? It seems pretty disingenuous….
My mistake, they’re only wanted for questioning anyhow. And I forgot that Mr. C was the individual who reported this grisly discovery to the cops in the first place. I don’t blame them for being upset with the media coverage and I can understand their desire to stay put, but again, the European TV and tabloids would be all over this if it’d happened in Gallia…it still seems like a weak excuse.
Or maybe he genuinely does want to sort things out and clear his name, but really doesn’t want to go through the media circus that would ensue if he returned to Korea? I just thought the implication that “we superior Europeans wouldn’t descend to such behaviour” rang incredibly hollow…
You can call them by their full name now, it’s in the open…
In the defense of Mr. C., some Korean “journalists” came to their little village, banged on the door, and went asking questions about the couple in the village [500 pax, I guess now they can't buy bread anymore there].
Besides, if they’ve been a bit in Korea, they’ve seen how the media treat news-related people. Ever seen a herd of photographers and cameramen pushing each other at the debarking gate of a plane?
But then, *if* one or two of them is/are guilty, and thought they could get away with it by running back to Mummy, they must be thinking again… This case is not going away.
Pffffft! Even if the Courjaults aren’t guilty of murder, one or both of them placed the fetuses in their home freezer. That’s got to be a criminal act.
I’m shocked….
I was sure the couple would return to Korea as quickly as possible to clear their name….
They should confess twice, then recant the confession when brought back to Korea. It worked for that American student….
Two dead white kids in a freezer? I don’t see the issue here.
/kidding
Nothing about this case makes sense. If the babies were really the couple’s babies, why would they have keep them in their freezer and then reported it to the police, especially since they surely would have known about DNA testing? If they had wanted to hide the evidence, they could have easily weighed down the small corpses, taken a midnight ferry somewhere, and dropped them and discreetly dropped them overboard.
I cannot imagine the wife could have gotten pregnant, carried the fetuses to term, and given birth to two babies without the husband or anyone else knowing about it?
I think there are really only two likely possibilities. One, the Korean police screwed up the DNA test. Two, a jilted lover decided to give the Frenchman something to remember her by.
Now they’re screaming “this is a plot to defame Jean-Louis’ employer”. Will translate the latest from Le Figaro in a bit, it’s hilarious. Or at the very least, tinfoil hat material.
Hmmm, isn’t that what Koreans are sometimes accused of round these parts—persecution-complex tinfoil hattery like that? It just bears out that we’re all fallible humans, wherever we live…. Even you superior French!
The translation is up.
Geez, on second thought, he should have stuck with the “media spectacle” story: this new angle he’s fishing around for is on a whole different level!
The lawyer could be, er…., spicing it up too. Anyway, who cares? Now that they are using this slant [and the media frenzy] to justify not going back, they look bad.
Geez, competition’s fierce all around. I’d better go check my freezer.
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Whew – there was a big block of something that had my heart racing for a moment – turned out to be my mother-in-law’s kalbitang. Still, I’d better get that damned key back.
lol
장모님 only has your best interests at heart…
It’s possible for a surrogate mother to have no DNA match to the child.
The Raelians were working with a South Korean firm in 2002 to clone the first human. Why did the French woman need a hysterectomy? What created the infection?
Is there any connection between Dr. Brigitte Boisselier and the French couple or the French couple’s friends?
The Martians did it!
BBC News/December 30, 2002
Prosecutors in South Korea have seized documents from a biotechnology company linked to a controversial sect which claims to have created the world’s first cloned baby.
Dr Boisselier last week claimed the birth of a healthy cloned baby girl, nicknamed Eve After raiding the offices of BioFusion Tech Inc. in the southern city of Daegu, officials questioned members of staff to see whether they had taken part in the cloning project.
Cloning is not illegal in South Korea, but prosecutors may be investigating whether staff have been carrying out medical research without a licence.
Last week, scientists from Clonaid – a US-based firm linked to the Raelian sect – said that they had helped a woman give birth to a cloned baby girl.
However, the announcement has been viewed with deep scepticism by the scientific community at large – and no proof has so far been put forward.
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