Terrorists and heroes...

[Canarr]

...okay, that was a bit hyperbolic. Sorry.

But I'm in a fairly good mood after reading this story here.

Short version: suspected bomber escapes arrest and disappears. Police is mobilized, can't find him. Suspect approaches fellow Syrians, looking for a place to spend the night, is initially accepted, but then identified as a suspected terrorist. His hosts call the police, tie him up, and hand him over to the authorities.

There's another article - in German, unfortunately - that details how Syrian refugees had used their social media groups to pass on the picture of the suspect among their communities - raising awareness of the alleged terrorist and thus assisting in his capture.

So, yeah: don't let a few bad apples ruin the orchard.

[Canarr]

Annnnd... now the (alleged) terrorist has hung himself in his cell. Despite supposedly being on a 24h suicide watch. After implicating his three captors as his accomplices.

Seriously: this movie practically writes itself.

[dendawg]

Didn't they once do a Law & Order episode like this?

[s_stabeler]

incidental point: it's actually likely irrelevant if his captors were his accomplices to his attempted bombing, since they took an active step- restraining him and turning him not the police- to prevent the conspiracy from going ahead. That, legally, is enough to defeat a conspiracy charge. ( more or less, it is considered to be the equivalent of being fine talking about it- which isn't in and of itself criminal- but not fine actually doing it. Since they took active steps to prevent it...)