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Tillsammans med T och M reste jag i början av februari 2006 runt i Bolivia. Under den perioden skrevs det i tidningarna om det unga paret som kidnappades och försvann spårlöst när de reste mellan Copacabana och La Paz, samma region som vi själva rörde oss i. Först i efterhand har jag förstått vilken industri dessa kidnappningar är. Myndigheterna befarar att så många som 10 individer i veckan, enbart i La Paz, utsätts för ett liknande brott där de kidnappas och kvarhålls under tiden som deras konton länsas. Många undkommer med blotta förskräckelsen. Andra har inte samma tur.
"In November 2005 Katharina Koller and Dr. Peter Kirsten Rabitsch started their trip around the world, like so many backpackers, with the vision to see fascinating countries, experience different cultures and get to know the world a little closer...
It was a trip they had long been looking forward to and they had long been preparing for… and a trip they were not to return from alive...
Katharina and Peter were last seen alive on the bus from Copacabana to La Paz, Bolivia, on Jan. 26th 2006 and shortly after when they got off the bus at 1 pm in the area of the Cemeterio in La Paz, close to the central bus terminal. Only a couple of hours later, the maximum daily amount of money was withdrawn from both their bank accounts, a procedure that continued on each of the following days until the families closed the bank accounts on Feb. 8th. Until then, criminals had withdrawn some 15.000 USD altogether from their accounts, from ATM machines in the streets of La Paz, Oruro, Sucre and Cochabamba.
Upon arrival in La Paz, Peter and Katharina had fallen victim to a common ploy, in which several criminals cooperate to credibly trick their victims and kidnap them:
A taxi waits for tourists descending from the public bus. When they embark, soon afterwards a fake tourists stops the taxi and joins them. After a short drive, the taxi is stopped by a fake policeman pretending to look for illegal drugs. The fake tourist carries drugs on him and all are escorted to a fake police station where the tourists are forced to give away their bank cards and the PIN-codes.
In order for the criminals to be able to empty their victims’ bank accounts they kept Katharina and Peter captive in a flat in Miraflores/ La Paz (that had been rented specifically for that purpose), together with a 33 year old Spanish backpack tourist, Rafael Hernandez Herran, who had been kidnapped five days earlier.
On February 1st, all three died a cruel death; they killed Rafael through several shots from a gun, Peter and Katharina were asphyxiated by sticky tapes wrapped around their heads."
(www.katharinaandpeter.info)
Läs mer på den sida som familj och vänner till Peter och Katharina har skapat.
"In November 2005 Katharina Koller and Dr. Peter Kirsten Rabitsch started their trip around the world, like so many backpackers, with the vision to see fascinating countries, experience different cultures and get to know the world a little closer...
It was a trip they had long been looking forward to and they had long been preparing for… and a trip they were not to return from alive...
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Katharina and Peter were last seen alive on the bus from Copacabana to La Paz, Bolivia, on Jan. 26th 2006 and shortly after when they got off the bus at 1 pm in the area of the Cemeterio in La Paz, close to the central bus terminal. Only a couple of hours later, the maximum daily amount of money was withdrawn from both their bank accounts, a procedure that continued on each of the following days until the families closed the bank accounts on Feb. 8th. Until then, criminals had withdrawn some 15.000 USD altogether from their accounts, from ATM machines in the streets of La Paz, Oruro, Sucre and Cochabamba.
Upon arrival in La Paz, Peter and Katharina had fallen victim to a common ploy, in which several criminals cooperate to credibly trick their victims and kidnap them:
A taxi waits for tourists descending from the public bus. When they embark, soon afterwards a fake tourists stops the taxi and joins them. After a short drive, the taxi is stopped by a fake policeman pretending to look for illegal drugs. The fake tourist carries drugs on him and all are escorted to a fake police station where the tourists are forced to give away their bank cards and the PIN-codes.
In order for the criminals to be able to empty their victims’ bank accounts they kept Katharina and Peter captive in a flat in Miraflores/ La Paz (that had been rented specifically for that purpose), together with a 33 year old Spanish backpack tourist, Rafael Hernandez Herran, who had been kidnapped five days earlier.
On February 1st, all three died a cruel death; they killed Rafael through several shots from a gun, Peter and Katharina were asphyxiated by sticky tapes wrapped around their heads."
(www.katharinaandpeter.info)
Läs mer på den sida som familj och vänner till Peter och Katharina har skapat.
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