Tourist Scared of Ending Up Like Britt Lapthorne

I asked what was going to happen to me, why and where they were leading me, said Emma L. Liqurics, a young tourist from Australia.

DUBROVNIK, CROATIA - The Australian, who caused quite a scene by trying to flee the police, opened up her heart today and admitted that she had too much to drink.

Emma L. Liqurics admitted that she had too much to drink, that she relaxed and pulled back from every day life. She says she barely remembers the night where she had a conflict with the police, who put her in handcuffs and drove her towards an unknown direction.

The story about the Australian interested the media after it was announced that the police arrested for disturbing the peace on Stradun Street. She managed to get out of the handcuffs and throw herself out of a moving police car, after which she rolled around on the bonnet of the police car and tried to explain how the police were bothering her to passers by.

Police release drunk Australian

The fear of the Croatian police amongst Australian residents is linked to the disappearance of Britt Lapthorne. The Australian media announced that police officers kidnapped and tried to sell her into slavery, which resulted in her death. The documentary published in Australia explains that Dubrovnik is the headquarters of an organization that deals in human trafficking.

Emma says that even though she was drunk, she felt fear and uncertainty due to the answers to various questions which were flying through her head. She asked herself what was going to happen, why and where they were taking her.

The police investigation showed that the girl did not escape, but that the police let her go. Young police officers felt sorry for the girl who was crying, and so they took her handcuffs off, without informing their superiors.

After they freed her, Emma ran out of the police car to a group of citizens and complained of problems with the police. The citizens called the police and a patrol soon took them all for informative questioning.

Australian police are different

The misunderstanding between the police and the young Australian occurred, according to other Australians, by the different relations between the police and citizens in Australia.

“In Australia there is a totally different approach to alcoholised people who are not brought in for informative questioning, but are taken to hospital to have their stomached ‘pumped’ or medical assistance” said people from Australia for Jutarnji List.

The police let her lie down on the car bonnet for 3-4 minutes until the passenger came out and gently pulled her off the car. He went back into the car and the girl, as if she was only waiting for that, lay down on the bonnet again. The passenger pulled her into the car by her hand, but she managed to open the door

Anonymous witness

“The police let her lie down on the car bonnet for 3-4 minutes until the passenger came out and gently pulled her off the car. He went back into the car and the girl, as if she was only waiting for that, lay down on the bonnet again. The passenger pulled her into the car by her hand, but she managed to open the door. Only then did they put handcuffs on her and drove her over Stradun, to the ‘Vratima od Pila’ entrance (to the city), to the surprise of the tourists, some of which were laughing”.

The Australian was fined 1,500 kuna for disturbing the peace on Tuesday around 12:15am, in Dubrovnik’s Stradun Street.