Chapter Fifty-Eight: New Hatred and Old Hatred
The case was closed in such a sloppy manner, and of course the EU police headquarters was very dissatisfied. They sent a sternly worded official letter:
1. The Royal Thai Police must provide full assistance to the EU Police Headquarters in the investigation into the death of Director of Intelligence Martin;
2. Any person who comes into contact with Martin after arriving in Thailand is not allowed to leave Bangkok and is subject to interrogation and investigation at any time;
3. Not to accept any material or moral compensation until the Martin case is settled;
4. Notification on the Bath incident (annex).
Such rough procedures and flawed closing reports by their Thai counterparts quickly became an open joke in international police circles. For example, everyone is talking about the fact that a drunken person can go to an abandoned wasteland on his own to find his deathbed home, which must be done with the help of God or gods. For example, a high-ranking police officer who went to the capital of a member state to handle a case refused to stay in a star-rated hotel with high security conditions and went to mingle with a group of low-quality bar girls, which is not only unbelievable, but simply fantastic; For example, if Martin's DNA has not been compared, how can you tell that the deceased is Martin? If not Martin, then where is Martin now? Who the deceased is, who is the murderer, etc., these are basically the basic knowledge of pediatrics in the police community, and I believe that the Royal Thai Police who handled this oolong case will be speechless. There is a feeling that Thailand should be downgraded from an Interpol member to an observer state. Burmese police officers on the Thai-Burmese border also often joke with their foreign counterparts across from them, "Hey, Martin!" This made the police in other parts of Thailand who were lying on their guns very angry. At their unanimous request, Director Yu, who had just been promoted to the head of the police headquarters, had to reopen the investigation of Martin's case. In this investigation, the police offered a reward of 500,000 baht for providing valuable clues once verified, and if it was a murder, there was a heavy reward for each person who caught the real culprit or provided the whereabouts of the suspect. It can be seen that Director Yu is indeed going to spend money this time. He appointed the newly promoted Captain Huang Youhuan as the deputy head of the investigation team, and he personally served as the team leader, and went all out to solve the case.
Unfortunately, Hansel, sent by the European Police Headquarters, arrived very quickly. He brought with him a huge team of more than 20 people, including the chief forensic doctor, firearms experts, drug and narcotics experts, fingerprint experts, etc., and it is said that they also brought their own drinking water and coffee on the charter flight.
According to the order of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Thailand, the Royal Police are not allowed to intervene in this investigation under normal circumstances; Unless Thailand's sovereignty and national security secrets are undermined, relevant electronic data and information must be provided throughout the process; The special investigation team was granted a three-month armed exemption in Thailand, which means that if the person the investigation considers to be suspect resists arrest or resists, he can be legally injured or killed. Compared with the last time, this order is almost a 180-degree turn, and even the other police forces who felt embarrassed by the Bangkok headquarters last time also felt that this time it was simply a traitor, that is, kneeling, and had no national integrity. However, both the director of the bureau who took the blame and Chen Xin, who was demoted, were ordered not to express any public or private opinions, and for a while, the Thai police circles were panicked and discussed.
In addition, the Bath incident mentioned by the European police is actually about the 2006 New Year's Eve serial bombings in Bangkok. The case occurred between the night of Chinese New Year's Eve in 2006 and the midnight of the following day in 2007 (31 December 2006 to 1 January 2007) in Bangkok, Thailand; It was the Chinese New Year's Eve celebration of the citizens. Four explosions occurred in different corners of the city at around 6 p.m. local time, followed by at least seven small explosions in the vicinity of the Bangkok metropolitan area in the next hour or so. A total of 8 different explosions of different sizes occurred in 8 different places in the city that night; It was not until the next day that at least three dead and 38 wounded were confirmed (one of the dead happened to be a Europolice headquarters staff member, although he was travelling to Thailand on a private holiday). The matter was later settled with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand and the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy Office coordinating several times to pay 10 million baht in compensation. But the EU police headquarters does not approve of this, and has been conducting a private investigation all along. The name of the deceased was Bass, so the EU police's version is the Bath incident. They have always believed that the Bath incident is full of suspicions, and even suspected of terrorist organizations or major criminal cases.
Now the European police are bringing up the old things again, and there is a lot of flavor of settling new accounts and old accounts together. Therefore, all walks of life in Thailand have to lower their stature and serve carefully.