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...Swiss will lift the secrecy veil if a depositor is accused of a serious crime, but they refuse to worry about tax dodgers. "We cannot act as a policeman for foreign governments," argues Schaefer. He says that his bank provides numbered accounts only for people known to its officers-"not Al Capones or South American generals" -and that it turned down deposits from the Dominican Republic's ousted Trujillo family. But he allows that "not all banks in Switzerland apply the same standards...
Blackmer said he and his wife then went to talk to the policeman in the booth at the Square. "I said, 'can I talk to you,' and he said something like 'sure kid, start talking.' So he tried in his way to get the story out of me and I, being furious, tried to tell the story...
...policeman reportedly sat back in the booth when Blackmer began talking, so he "was just talking up at a blank window." When the policeman asked where the attack had occurred, Blackmer said, he pointed towards the cemetery. He said that when the policeman asked a second time he replied, "by that god damn church up there...
Blackmer said this made the policeman mad. He said the policeman also got mad when his wife showed him the hood she had ripped off one of the attackers' jackets. At that point the Blackmers stopped talking to the policeman and left...
...feel it was our own fault for getting involved," Mrs. Blackmer said. When I kicked the guy I thought they knew I was a girl and it wouldn't matter. What bothered me was the policeman's attitude...