I was watching the history channel this morning and they had a couple shows on infamous murders. One of the episodes dealt specifically with bodies stuffed in trunks.
The last one mentioned was the Unicorn killer that fled to France.
My first problem is that they showed a clip of a Frenchman protesting the extradition back to the US. He was quoted as saying the Unicorn killer only killed one person and it wasn't like he was the Unabomber. What???? Apparently it's ok if you only kill one person. I just don't understand how that can be a ringing character endorsement.
My second problem is how the history channel protrayed France. They made the French look worse than they really were. From what I understand, the only reason why the extradition didn't happen when the French arrested him was because of the extradition laws. The actual treaty between the US and France had to be changed before he could be legally extradited.
They showed a clip of French authorities laughing and joking around with the killer and they also showed the news clip of the idiot mentioned above. I'm sure the French authorities weren't too thrilled about having a murderer loose in their country and I'm sure that you could find just as many US idiots that would act the same way as the French personnel shown. It just seems like the history channel went out of their way to make France look bad. Bad, bad editing.
The last one mentioned was the Unicorn killer that fled to France.
My first problem is that they showed a clip of a Frenchman protesting the extradition back to the US. He was quoted as saying the Unicorn killer only killed one person and it wasn't like he was the Unabomber. What???? Apparently it's ok if you only kill one person. I just don't understand how that can be a ringing character endorsement.
My second problem is how the history channel protrayed France. They made the French look worse than they really were. From what I understand, the only reason why the extradition didn't happen when the French arrested him was because of the extradition laws. The actual treaty between the US and France had to be changed before he could be legally extradited.
They showed a clip of French authorities laughing and joking around with the killer and they also showed the news clip of the idiot mentioned above. I'm sure the French authorities weren't too thrilled about having a murderer loose in their country and I'm sure that you could find just as many US idiots that would act the same way as the French personnel shown. It just seems like the history channel went out of their way to make France look bad. Bad, bad editing.