CHAPTER XII. The Hague II
The prime minister, who sat at Huis Ten Bosch Palace, was not at all polite to Martin, although he was first and foremost a harsh critic of the flaws of the capitalist electoral system and the police system.
When he blamed the recent theft of the museum and the mysterious death of a journalist on the failure to solve the problem in time, Martin interrupted him and replied with a disdainful smile, "The police in your country, who are considered to be the best in the league, have not followed up on the clues we have provided in a timely manner, and there is really nothing the villain can do.
The prime minister was very dissatisfied with Martin's soft and rigid attitude, and he told Martin that the theft case caused a sensation in the literary and media circles, and even became a laughing stock in the mouths of some unfriendly countries.
To this end, a group of activists who love cultural relics and art treasures have set up a semi-official art conservation organization, Borgisse Starfield, headquartered in Italy, with high-ranking government officials, private investigators, professors, famous painters, well-known journalists, art collectors, etc., each with a division of labor and coordination, dedicated to tracing stolen works of art and protecting existing cultural relics, and he himself is about to become the head of the Dutch branch.
With that said, the prime minister kept his eyes on Martin, hoping that he would speak on behalf of the EU Police Headquarters.
Martin was not panicked at all, he remembered his father's admonition: to think through all aspects of the problem, he lowered his head and avoided the prime minister's gaze.
Seeing that he was rotten, the prime minister finally became excited, he stood up, paced and said loudly, we all know that it is impossible to control crime by relying on the police alone.
Crime is a social phenomenon, and it is the responsibility of society to control crime. The police are only one part of the criminal justice system, and criminal justice is part of the government, which is nothing but a part of society.
However, law enforcement still insists that the police should reduce the crime rate as the starting point of their work, believing that the basic task of the police is to maintain public order and control crime.
This is the most obvious police function. Both the Netherlands and the European Union are. After decades of tireless efforts by these artists and scholars, detectives have finally traced the whereabouts of some of these artworks.
But what have we police done over the years? Is it worthy of taxpayers and the government? Martin doesn't care that he criticizes the police, as long as it doesn't affect him Martin's promotion, he doesn't care about anyone.
But Martin has always felt that after solving this case, he has a bright face, and he has always wanted to pursue the god-like professional existence of Deputy Director Petit, which can be regarded as worthy of his flying youth when he met Benoy.
The Prime Minister saw Martin's impatience and lack of bottom line, so he called the minister to come up and talk to Martin about the next step, and then kicked Martin out of the office.
Martin didn't know where the minister's information came from, but what shocked him the most was that he said that he knew that most of these famous paintings had already been lost to China, and it was not clear that Woman with a Fan, Modigliani's most famous work, was in the hands of a wealthy collector in southern China.
Chinese? Are those Oriental yellow people who are robbed of their wallets and mobile phones and don't dare to report the crime? Will they collect famous European paintings?
Do they have money to collect? The conversation between the Prime Minister and the Minister was so informative that Martin couldn't react at once.
Out of politeness, he said his good-by-say goodbye to the soon-to-be Prime Minister and got up to leave.
As he was leaving, he heard the minister shouting loudly into his back, "Listen, Martin." Now I am not asking for your help, but I ask you to send some detectives to track down, preferably Chinese, you know that we Germans and Chinese are different in many ways, especially in appearance.
You know.