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Oprettet af M55 d. 30-05-2010 15:02

en trist historie fra livet i Phuket

A SWEDISH expat who lived life on Phuket on the edge has died a sad death without money, friends or dignity. The woman's death highlights the sad-case Swedes who choose a life as beggars in Thailand rather than fly home to Scandinavia.

Gabriella Rose-Marie Strand, 60, was a familiar sight around Patong and other parts of southern Phuket. Having overstayed her visa, she begged for rice and slept wherever she could find a place to lay her head.

'We all knew her,'' Patong police lieutenant Jukkapong Luang-on told Phuketwan today. ''She had been eking out an existence around Patong for years.''

The cause of Ms Strand's death remains a mystery. Her body was found at the Loma Park food centre, on the foreshore at Patong, about 9am on Saturday.

She was fully clothed and wearing her small backpack, which contained a repatriation notification card from Immigration and medication from Patong Hospital.

The Immigration card meant that her passport was being held, most likely while Swedish authorities sought family to pay her fare home.

''She may have fallen and struck her head, or had a hear attack,'' Lieutenant Jukkapong said. ''Her foot slipped under a refrigerator and she appears to have electric burn wounds. There were no witnesses.''

The woman's body was taken to Patong Hospital, where nurses told the officer that Ms Strand was already well-known. ''She had no money and could not pay for medication,'' the lieutenant said.

''We have reported her case and other Phuket cases many times to the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok but the Swedish officials have always been unwilling to pay for these people to be repatriated.

''Why are these people allowed to come here from Sweden when Thailand is just a developing country? We cannot afford to support beggars from rich countries.''

It's a chronic problem that highlights particularly the Swedish approach to the issue. Back in 2008 Phuketwan was told by a consular official on Phuket that scores of Swedes choose each year to follow the sun to Thailand and Phuket, even though they do not have the money to support themselves.

The activities of Ms Strand and a companion, Bjorn Lennart Lundqvist, who lived on charity on Phuket and never paid their bills, and who were repeat visitors to the island, was reported last year. We christened them the Scamdinavians.

In 2007 alone, the Phuket consulate assisted 109 Swedes who simply ran out of money and requested, to put it diplomatically, ''economic assistance.''

Even in death, beggars such as the sad-case Swede will be a drain on Thailand's finances. Ms Strand's body will stay at Patong Hospital until it is collected.

To some extent, it is a coming home for Ms Strand, who often slept at the hospital. Whether she ever makes it back to Sweden for burial now is something for Swedish officials to determine.

Earlier this week, at a meeting between Phuket's honorary consuls and embassy representatives from 17 nations and leading Phuket officials, the problem of expats who arrive on the island without medical coverage was raised.

Although a sad case, Ms Strand's legacy may eventually prove to be a review of Thailand's easy entry laws that allow beggars from developed countries to pillage the precious resources of undeveloped countries.

set og hentet fra http://phuketwan....dle-12558/

Oprettet af aaby d. 30-05-2010 16:59

jsh71 skrev:
R.I.P.

Phuketwan skrev om kvinden og hendes kæreste første gang for nogle måneder siden.

Den gang snakkede websitet også med den ansvarlige på ambassaden som, måske udenfor citat, som så eventuelt er misbrugt af jurnalisten, skrev at det var, og mange andre, var sociale nassere som bevidst krte den heeelt der ud, og at de havde gjort det før.

Jeg synes sagtens man kan sætte det op mod "Vores egen" Carsten, den dødssyge dansker som også har været diskuteret her i dette forum, dog i en anden tråd.

Hvad skal andre gøre hvis nogen strander?

Carsten kom her ud, og der fra gik det ned ad bakke. Men der er intet i Carstens historie som viser at han bevidt har forsøgt at røvrende andre!!!

Omvendt med den nu døde svensker havde gjort det bevidst gang på gang, drak fra først minut de ankom til Phuket, havde aldrig reelle intentioner om at betale husleje osv.

Og sådan kørte det bare der ud af, indtil kkvinden døde. Hvad der skete med hendes kæreste, ved jeg ikke.

Jeg prøver lige at finde den første artikel om kvinden, hendes kæreste, og den svenske ambassade.

Obs! Jeg gætter mig til at journalisten citerede udenfor citat, fordi det har han gjort før. det var ham der skrev en bemærkning sagt privat om at guvernøren ville have taxametre i Phukets Tuk Tu er, så han kan godt den slags :-(

Ok, jeg finder lige den artikel, den første.

Ok, sagt som gjort, der var to, en fra december og en fra januar. Og jeg huskede rigtigt. Den nu døde kvinde beskrives sammen med sin ven som kyniske udnyttere af diverse systemer. Ud fra artiklerne som i får URLs på nu, gav de den ikke for lidt. Det er det, kvinden i det mindste har måtte betale prisen for.

Læs nedenstående inden i får for ondt af konen og hendes "kolleger"!

22. dec 2009
http://phuketwan....ior-11940/

12. jan. 22010

http://phuketwan....ome-12013/

Oprettet af aaby d. 01-06-2010 08:20

M55 skrev:
jeg har ikke ond af konen som du kalder hende syntes bare det er en trist skæbne som hun jo selv har valgt

hvis der er nogen der strander her i thailand vil jeg ikke hjælpe e har set for meget fup og fiduser

det må være op til familien og venner og vil kan de ikke hjælpe bare ærgerligt det kan og bliver i fremtiden ikke mig der hjælper nogen jeg ikke kender
((6))

Der er en ny artikel fra igår mandag, den svenske ambassade har flere gange linet en hjemtur op til konen og hendes kæreste, men de sprang fra hver gang. Politiet i Phuket vil i øvrigt gerne snakke med kæresten, som lissom er forsvundet.

Læs her (på engelsk)
http://www.scanda...ws_id=6393

Redigeret af aaby d. 01-06-2010 08:21