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Only in Holland?
29.10.2002

A man walks into a supermarket in Amsterdam, pulls out a knife, and threatens the cashier. He demands to be given the money in the till. He gets 500 euros (equivalent of 500 dollars these days) and races out of the store. The manager and a colleague chase after the thief, finally catch up with him, and tackle him to the ground. The police are notified and when they arrive, the thief files an offical complaint charging the two men with assualt and battery. Hello!!! Now it turns out that the store manager and his colleague are being prosecuted by the courts for assault and battery and if the court finds them guilty they could receive a maxumum sentence of six years. Seems to me this is a-- backwards. Who's the criminal here anyway? What kind of a country has a judicial system like this? As a matter of fact, as I understand it, one could be tried for murder in this country if a thief breaks into your home and in trying to stop him you hit him over the head with a baseball bat and accidently kill him!

Ugandan law was swift. Cut off the thief's hands. No way would the vicitm of a robbery ever have to stand trial!

Are there other Western countries with this kind of policy? Or is it only in Holland that such an unbelievable system is allowed to endure?

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