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2008-07-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

French exchange students 'tortured, stabbed to death and set on fire' in London flat

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-07-03 06:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Hmmmm. More knife play. Getting to be epidemic isn't it? Do the Brits still think it's not wise to have any means of self defense ?

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-07-03 11:36|| 2008-07-03 11:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Two more dead Eloi as Morlock custom is become the law of the land.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-07-03 12:21|| 2008-07-03 12:21|| Front Page Top

#3 This cannot have occurred silently. How did none of the neighbors notice and call the police?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-07-03 13:11|| 2008-07-03 13:11|| Front Page Top

#4 They were "bio-engineers".

From the article:

Both he and his friend had won internships at Imperial College after succeeding academically in their home country.

They were picked for the placement after graduated from the Polytech, which is part of Clermont Ferrand University and affiliated to the prestigious École Polytechnique which is the top engineering Grande Ecole in France.

Its students train the scientific, industrial and economic elite of the nation, with many graduates going on to become senior politicians or captains of industry.

'They were brilliant students with glittering careers ahead of them,' said a spokesman for the Polytech today.

Eyewitnesses claimed that "arsonists" hurled petrol bombs into the flat and that at least one of the suspects took off in a Beemer.

Hardly the MO of a "drug-crazed" burglar. More like retribution.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, please ...

Posted by mrp 2008-07-03 14:00|| 2008-07-03 14:00|| Front Page Top

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