It is, without saying, a matter of the utmost seriousness that a European lady paraded herself sans any clothes in the middle of the day on a public highway in Bahrain. Clearly this is not customary behaviour so the ingestion of some hallucinant must have led to this unusual act.
Having read your report (GDN, December 8) and specifically of the Palestinian man attempting to ‘help’ this possessed lady, it’s really not clear what kind of ‘help’ this well intentioned gentleman had in mind and what reaction he could reasonably have expected.
I’m sure that his intentions were entirely honourable and that he was acting as the Good Samaritan but how did he expect to help her except to coax her into a private place and out of sight of the public? This could have conceivably landed him with a bigger problem of a charge of attempted kidnapping should she have resisted.
Since the lady was obviously on some intoxicant her act of lashing out when cornered was not entirely unpredictable.
The point which I’m making is that such public order offences are best left to the law enforcement authorities and not to be undertaken by members of the public unless, of course, this gentleman was intending to take the law into his own hands and to effect a citizen’s arrest.
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