Police post reply to 'Evil Krabi' video

Published: 12 Nov 2012 at 12.34
Online news: Tourism

KRABI - Police in Krabi have uploaded a video clip "The Truth from Krabi" to YouTube to explain the legal process in connection with the sexual assault of a Dutch tourist by a Thai tour guide and to counter the claim by the victim's father that authorities allowed "easy" bail for the suspect.

In the four-and-a-half minute clip, with no English subtitles, police say Krabi’s tourism sector had been hit hard by the "Evil Man from Krabi" clip posted on the internet last month by the father of the 19-year-old model.

According to the father, the tour guide was able to avoid police for about a month and he was allowed "easy" bail by the authorities after being captured. He also details other violent incidents in the in Ao Nang area involving tourists that he claims were covered up by the authorities.

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cadcolin
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Discussion 29 : 12 Nov 2012 at 19.2129
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Another brilliant piece of PR for Thailand lets explain our actions but only in Thai while Thailand is being dragged through the mud again!!!! in English all over the internet the boys in brown can’t even be bothered to use one of their many translators they have to explain the Thai justice system to a distraught angry parent and the wider world how many hits from foreigners are going to watch this video !!!!
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Discussion 28 : 12 Nov 2012 at 19.1928
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The truth from Holland seems to be hurting a lot eh,,,Krabi Police and other weak and stupid Thai officials?? I hope from today on EVERY tourist that has been scammed gets it out on youtube..... may the truth be known so you can continue to burry your heds in the sand!!
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Discussion 27 : 12 Nov 2012 at 19.0727
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What is the problem? A man accused to a crime has been granted bail by a court. Maybe too many people are watching the politically correct crime propaganda shows on TV and think that alleged rape victims never lie, or that the accused should be locked up without due process because some woman made an accusation.
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Discussion 26 : 12 Nov 2012 at 19.0726
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@ Discussion 11 (sibley):

No tourist will watch this video IN THAI LANGUAGE.

So, no harm done (to tourism).
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Discussion 25 : 12 Nov 2012 at 18.5625
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Most are abundantly aware that the law in Thailand is based on race rather than equality. Those that have been resident here for quite some time know only too well that there is a deep division on how foreigners are treated in comparison to their Thai counterparts.
Embassies around the world warn of the dangers and potential risks of visiting Thailand and therefore the owness is in part on the Foreigner
wishing to visit this country and to decide whether the benefits outweigh such risks that evidently exist.
The crime in this particular case is severe, and I only hope that due to the increasing publicity that justice will be seen to be don
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falangsur
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Discussion 24 : 12 Nov 2012 at 18.5524
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This is less about falang versus Thai victim treatment. This is about a disregard in Thailand for the crime of rape. The fact that the police would put the image of a victim on a video and then post it on-line is absurd, shocking, and cruel all at once. Thai women are routinely the victims of rape and nothing is done - so the police in this case feel like they probably did more than usual and cannot understand why everyone is so upset. They also have a lot to learn as social media continues to expose the corruption and incompetence of government institutions.
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DickFarang
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Discussion 23 : 12 Nov 2012 at 18.5423
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“The police explain that they are in charge of investigation.”

I never understood how police in Thailand can do (or not do) as they please.

In my home country, Belgium (a neighbour of the Netherlands), an investigation is managed by a magistrate (a judge) and the police detectives work under his command.
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nitnoi
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Discussion 22 : 12 Nov 2012 at 18.5122
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Netherland is Netherland, Thailand is Thailand, neither land of these two are similar in every aspect,Thailand doesn't want to learn water management,even it is very successful; it can creat more lands dispice of being at below sea level,from Netherland. The laws are also different, Netherland might legalize pot smoking but when it comes to other crimes it is serious about proceeding the justices.Thailand has crooks and theifts in the government, law enforcement etc., it doesn't take any Eistien to see the difference. Since PM used to make a speech in foreign country without any translater why can't the police department do the same.
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Discussion 21 : 12 Nov 2012 at 18.4521
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Yes the laws are different, civilized countries have laws that are enforced, Thailand does not!!!! And to post the silly video in Thai...just another incompetent blunder by the police. Dead tourists, injured & mugged tourists, scammed tourists, knifed tourists....that's tourism in Thailand.
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Discussion 20 : 12 Nov 2012 at 18.0920
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Just read today on BP (//the disgusting political murder of Songkla's Mayor) that Police would OPPOSE BAIL for a suspect, because it is 'A SERIOUS CRIME'... So they can, is it not? So they could have done it in Krabi too, or not? A rape is not a murder, for sure, but is a rape not 'a serious crime' in Thailand? Or is it, once more, and again, because it is 'only a Farang' who got hurt (by a Thai)?
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