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Article: Dagobert, Germany's cult criminal, goes in the dock
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 18, 1995
- Author:
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Theoretically, he is a criminal who could be jailed for 15 years.
But few in Germany see things quite like that. Instead, the man in
the dock is widely regarded as a folk hero.
"Of course, it's bad, what he did," said one Berliner this week.
"But it's impressive, too, isn't it?" The man known to millions as
Dagobert - the Uncle Scrooge character in Donald Duck cartoons - is
still admired, not least for his criminal cheek. Arno Funke appeared
in court in Berlin yesterday, charged with blackmail and attempted
arson. He is accused of responsibility for six explosions in
department stores.
But it is not the explosions Germans remember but his ability to
make the police look spectacularly ...
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