An insane anti-climax

An insane anti-climax

After the police declared that one of the three suspects in the Oct. 12 Bali bomb blast had been identified, they arrested a man, whose face resembled one of three faces -- based on the artist's image.

The bright-skinned man with long hair was 'found' by the police at the Bejawa bus terminal in Flores, West Nusa Tenggara.

The man just said yes when the police officers approaching him asked if he was one of the Bali bombers. Then he was transported (by plane) to Bali escorted by two armed officers.

Questioning "the suspect" the police officers learned that the man was insane. "The answers (to police questions) were confusing and did not match to the questions. His statements strongly indicated that he is insane. His face looked very similar to one of the three sketches," Insp. Gen. Made Mangku Pastika, chief of the police investigation team, said.

What happened was an anti-climax. The police arrested the wrong suspect. Arresting the wrong suspect and then released them is a normal thing in an investigation process. But healthy officers arresting an insane man and escorting him on a plane was crazy.

Weren't the officers aware that the man had shown his insanity from the beginning. The man said yes when the police asked him if he was one of the Bali bombers.

Isn't it very easy to identify insane people (in such a public place)?

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta