Monaco had two Middle Eastern men they'd taken into custody in the parking garage beneath La Belle Epoque at 17 Avenue d'Ostende--
Oops--they weren't supposed to actually catch the bad guys--
Whew--now all they had to do was turn a hero who'd defended Edmond Safra into a "lone nut" solely responsible--
And so they proceed in that efficient manner learned by Chief Inspector Olivier Jude at the FBI National Academy March, 1999--
Monaco police seize Ted, put him in four-point restraint, catheterize him, deprive him of sleep for 72 hours--
They conspire to get Heidi over from New York to visit the hero in the hospital--
Once in the Safra car in Monaco, however, it is diverted to the police station, where they seize Heidi's passport--
[All there in the letters of Michael Griffith to our Consulate in Marseilles, having long been posted here on Free Republic]--
The passport they show to Ted with the threat that his wife is being strip-searched and tortured and will be detained indefinitely--
Altogether with the secretly-taken photos of the couple's children, and the secretly-recorded tapes of the children's voices--
So under the extreme psychological pressure of threats upon his love ones, Ted signs the typed police-prepared false "confession"--
In French, which Ted does not read, write or speak--
And this confession is forced upon Ted for three years by the Monaco-paid pre-tend de-fenders, Georges Blot and Donald Manasse--
Witness the press pool at the trial, how they laugh at the antics of the extorted "confession"--these sophisticated journalists know it is absurd--
They laugh at the claim that Ted cut himself--for they know how the game is played in Monaco--
The defendant always "confesses"--and the "confession" is never recanted--
The truth is a stranger in a Monaco court room, as alien as at a Stalin show trial, or Maoist self-accusation.
In fact, Ted has impressed observers with his keen and persistent questioning--
He has made Sonia the obvious fabricator she is--
While Lily has agreed with the defense that the delay of the police is the cause of her husband's death--
And Samuel Cohen the Mossad-trained security chief testified had the police not detained him he could have recovered Edmond Safra and Vivian Torrent alive.
And still Monaco has to awaken Ted every twenty minutes in order to make him appear tired, confused--whatever--yet. . . .
It only serves to expose the heart of the matter: an extorted false confession enforced by a police state.
Monaco, now would be a good time to save face--release Ted.
The locksmiths said the doors were not locked.
The head of security said you handcuffed him--while you released the two suspects in the garage.
You took three hours to recover two corpses in the heart of the city--
Release the scapegoat or become the laughing stock--you're already the black sheep.
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