My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 258

“Moreover, these cases become very easy to solve.”

“Why is that?”

“Because in dangerous situations, people tend to arm themselves for safety.”

And that armament can be used to protect oneself, but also to threaten others.

“And this isn’t the first time this has happened, right?”

“Not the first time?”

“Yes, in fact, assault cases in tourist destinations are quite common. However, in most cases, the investigation is not properly conducted.”

That’s understandable. In cases of assault in tourist spots, the victim eventually has to return to their home country. And they don’t bother to revisit the country where the crime occurred just to see the end result.

From the victim’s perspective, they don’t want to return to the place where they suffered. Conversely, it means that the police can gloss over the case without any repercussions.

Because the victim won’t hire a lawyer to pressure them.

“Moreover, looking at the death……”

Park Do-joon checked the case records. The victim was beaten to death there. If a woman is beaten to death for resisting, it’s hard to see it as accidental.

Generally, assault ends after the person is subdued.

“There will be quite a few other victims.”

“And they just let that happen in Saudi Arabia?”

“Because they can’t pinpoint it.”

Not everyone provides their travel records to those around them, and if they don’t tell anyone, it’s impossible to track.

“No, but isn’t there something else? Like credit card statements……”

“Isn’t there a common tactic used even in Korea?”

Actively enticing the other person by offering a discount for paying in cash.

“Even if that’s not the case, they might pick someone who is unlikely to cause trouble.”

“Someone unlikely to cause trouble… That makes sense.”

If everyone who travels there goes missing, even if the Saudi Arabian police are incompetent and uninterested, they would notice something and start investigating.

But what if only a small number of people disappear without a trace… And what if no missing person report is even filed?

“Even if a report is filed, it’s ambiguous.”

The only people who can file a missing person report are family members, and if the family files a report with the local police, it goes through the embassy and then to the Saudi Arabian police. That alone would take months, and that’s more than enough time to get rid of all the evidence.

“It’s absurd, but not impossible.”

And criminals learn, establish, and develop their crimes.

Naturally, in the process, they become more meticulous and sharper.

“So, is this Zaid Otaibi guy really a rapist and murderer?”

“There’s a very high possibility. Maybe there’s an accomplice too. The probability is quite high.”

“Why is that?”

“Looking at the level of learning, it’s not hard to guess.”

A criminal learns from their crimes. And through that learning, they commit more precise crimes without getting caught. But even though it happened in Saudi Arabia, the precision shown in this case is no joke.

Realistically, if it weren’t for sheer luck, the body would probably never have been found.

Even experts say it’s a miracle it wasn’t buried in the sand dunes.

“And this extreme male-dominant culture unique to Islamic culture tends to express this as a point of pride.”

“A point of pride?”

“Well, it’s almost gone these days, but in the past, in Korea, people were proud of taking advantage of a drunken woman and having relations with her.”

“Ah, that’s right.”

There was a time when the person who succeeded in getting a woman drunk at a nightclub or bar and having sex with her would proudly boast about it to those around them.

Of course, if it was consensual sex after drinking, there’s no problem. But those incidents happened when the woman was completely unconscious and had no judgment, and current law classifies that as rape.

In short, there were definitely guys in the past who were proud of committing rape.

“But what about now?”

“Definitely not.”

Now, even if a woman is drunk, touching her is punishable as assault, so there are no guys who boast about it.

“What is the culture like here?”

“Hmm……”

“Moreover, Islamic culture has almost no way to relieve stress.”

Alcohol? Of course, it’s illegal. Travel? Islamic countries don’t like travel because they think it’s influenced by foreign cultures. Cultural industry? Due to extreme religious policies, almost all cultural industries can only express praise for Allah.

Singing a song that openly talks about love or depicting a romance between two men and women? If that person is a national, it wouldn’t be strange if an Islamic extremist shot them in the head.

Even arranged meetings are enough to turn the country upside down, so how could free love be possible?

Even now, there are plenty of guys in this area who go to a woman’s house and point a gun at her head and pull the trigger just because she’s on social media.

“And those countries have extremely limited ways to relieve stress. And most of them cross over into illegal areas.”

Since everything is illegal anyway, people think quite easily about the problem of stress. But if they can’t relieve it, they become more extreme and more dangerous.

First, aggression increases, they become quite negative about reality, and they relieve their stress by abusing others.

“That’s why normal people turn into devils when they go to the military.”

At one time, it was considered normal in the military for senior soldiers to beat junior soldiers like dogs. Then, when an accident happened, the officers would catch the soldiers like lice and never let them rest. They said that’s how accidents don’t happen.

But the more they did that, the more accidents kept happening. Because the soldiers became more aggressive because their stress wasn’t relieved.

“But just giving soldiers a cell phone solved many problems within the military.”

The suicide rate, desertion rate, and even cases of violence between soldiers decreased significantly. Of course, the officers are annoyed because their corruption keeps leaking out.

“But in the case of Saudi, that’s impossible.”

Lack and thirst cause stress in humans, and stress causes violence. As a joke, people often say that people who don’t eat meat are so aggressive because they don’t eat meat, but that’s not entirely wrong.

“And if there’s a way to relieve that stress, it can become a power.”

Ko Kwang-soo frowned at Park Do-joon’s words.

“Then what should we do? Should we report it to the Saudi Arabian police?”

“As I said before, the possibility of them investigating or punishing it is not very high.”

In other words, if you don’t spoon-feed them, they’ll probably gloss over it. Because it’s a crime against a foreigner.

“Moreover, the incompetence of Korean diplomats is famous.”

“Ugh, it’s a shame that I can’t deny that.”

If a diplomat actively tries to inform the truth and resolve the case, the authorities will try to resolve it by any means.

“Among Americans, there’s an idiom that an eagle spreads its wings [meaning that American citizens receive strong support and protection from their government when abroad].”

That means that no matter what country you go to, if you show an American passport, they can’t treat you carelessly. Because treating a citizen of that country carelessly causes diplomatic problems.

But the diplomatic skills of Korea are terrible, and there are few people who try to do anything to solve such problems.

“This case is the same.”

If it weren’t for the Hyunseong Group’s plan to bring Park Do-joon here, Koreans would never have known about it.

“Does that make a big difference?”

“It’s huge. It was the same in the past when an assault case broke out.”

“Assault case?”

“An American citizen came to Korea and was involved in an assault case.”

To be exact, it was a case of being unilaterally beaten. He was a second-generation Korean-American who spoke Korean well, but his nationality was American.

But he went to a club with a friend and was beaten by a group of people, and problems arose after going to the police station.

At that time, the police tried to handle it as a mutual assault as always.

But the beaten American couldn’t accept that, and of course, he called the US Embassy, and the US Ambassador, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Chief, and a Foreign Ministry administrator were dispatched to the police station in the middle of the night.

Because of that incident, the officer in charge was fired and the chief was demoted to a rural area.

“But the administrative power of Korean diplomats? Well, it’s hard to expect.”

In fact, the reality of the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs is that they can’t even go to the Philippines to find and rescue a Korean who has been unfairly imprisoned, but instead say, ‘Take this opportunity to learn English there and think positively.’

“So, you’re saying that even if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs pushes this and asks for an investigation, they won’t listen?”

“This is a matter of pride in a way.”

From their perspective, it’s a situation that could be argued as interference in internal affairs. In that situation, it’s practically impossible to resolve the case by simply providing information.

“Moreover, we don’t even know if they’ll investigate who the accomplice is.”

“Then I’m worried about what to do.”

“The best way is to catch them on the spot.”

“On the spot?”

“Yes.”

“But will that be easy?”

“It’s not impossible. The best way is to give them a chance.”

“Give them a chance?”

“Yes.”

“It’s dangerous, but it’s the most certain way.”

And there was a suitable method for that.

Zaid Otaibi was just an ordinary man born into an ordinary family in Saudi Arabia, living an ordinary life. People think of Saudi Arabia as having mansions, several swimming pools, and luxurious interiors, but very few people live that kind of life.

Of course, the government is responsible for a significant portion of their livelihood, but that doesn’t mean everyone can just play around and eat.

In fact, Saudi men are reluctant to work, just like the nobles of the Roman era in the past. Because the money they earn from working is much less than the money they receive from the government.

In reality, Saudi Arabia has more than 8 million foreign workers who do most of the work.

“But recently, the Saudi Arabian government is not hesitating to take extreme measures to change that.”

The reason is that most of the money comes from oil sales, so if there’s no oil, they’ll just go bankrupt. The fact that the whole world is looking for eco-friendly energy for the sake of the environment is not a good environment for Saudi Arabia.