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Aeryn Gillern: Missing in Austria

Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
edited November 2011 in General Banter
I was just sent this link about an American man who went 'missing in Austria' and his mother's efforts to find the truth

http://www.aeryngillern.com/Aeryn_Gillern/Home.html

Reminds me of life beyond 'discussions' and text

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Comments

  • BarraBarra soto zennie wandering in a cloud in beautiful, bucolic Victoria BC, on the wacky left coast of Canada Veteran
    How disappointing that the Austrian police would not pursue a missing persons case because he is not a citizen. It must be devastating for a parent to have a child who disappears like this. We have a similar case here with an Australian young man travelling through this province. The police and others are looking for him. The parents have come here to follow up on sightings, but there is no resolution.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    Yes, sad..
  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    Doesn't it seem odd that Gillern was a United Nations employee, and yet UNIDO didn't get involved in the case at all?

    Young men disappearing on trips abroad. I wonder what that's about? We usually think of women as being vulnerable to this kind of thing.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    If you read through the archives, UNIDO did assist at some point. It was not a road trip, he lived there. There are challenges to that case, but I think it is all listed by his mother already.
  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    I was including the guy Barra mentioned, and also "CJ", whose case is posted on the blog with Gillern. Young med disappearing while travelling/studying/working abroad, then. It still surprises me.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    OK.
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    edited November 2011
    Wow, that case is really revealing. Here in the States, we take it more or less for granted that there are non-discrimination laws, and that the law is applied to political figures (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) and law-enforcement officers, as well as to ordinary businesses and government agencies (though not all cases seem to get adjudicated fairly--nothing's perfect). But now we're finding out that non-discrimination, non-harassment are foreign concepts in parts of Europe. Who knew that French women were putting up with harassment and assaults in the work environment all these years? I wonder if the disappearance of that CJ guy had anything to do with gayness? It's kind of a scary world. I have a neice working in Berlin. So far she hasn't run into any problems.
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