Congratulations on that “experience” to you VG. I wrote the same thing on my blog here on October 17th 2010. You can read it here, just go in to Family blogs, on my blog. Of course there will be no criminal case against them in Norway. Norway is a state of law, and yes, injustice can happen in Norwegian justice system, but then its accidents, and its rear.
Everyone who followed the “court cases” in Congo, and is normal intelligent people knows what went on there. Many has had opinions about this case, some of them with opinion have been laughable. Some of them have been people in such positions you’d think they would know better. Someone has had an agenda in some way. Self promotion has been the most common. Very few of these with opinions know much about the case, like for instance read the verdicts that are posted on this website. Some of them have said more about themselves than about this case. I and many with me will be very suspicious to guesses and opinions from these people in the future.
In a state of law you can arrest a person if there is reasonable to believe that the person has committed a criminal act. Then there is a short period of time where you can gather evidence, but then the arrested has to be presented to custody. There they have to present evidence or at least strong circumstantial evidence to keep the arrested in custody. If it can’t be presented, the arrested will have to be set free. It’s not often that happens because the prosecution doesn’t make an arrest until they have enough evidence for custody. I think that if a person is convicted and later evidence that questions the guilt the case can be reopened. There is a commission that decides if a case should be reopened.
If Moland and French should be arrested when entering Norway the prosecution would have to have evidence of criminal behavior. We know they don’t have any evidence of that, because they don’t exist. The criminal police have according to VG no interest in the case. They have of course many other matters to deal with. The Congolese didn’t need evidence; they had another agenda than a Norwegian court as anyone who followed the case will understand. This case has no interest in Congo now. They are focused on the election and other things. In Kinshasa it probably never had much interest. It was in Kisangani they thought they would bring in millions of dollars. I think much of the air in the balloon went out when they were transferred. The government in Congo will probably not have a long term conflict about this case with Norway and Britain.
Knut Moland, December 9th 2011
