The facts are uncontested – there has been a wave of bombings and terrorist attacks through the night and early morning of the 5th and 6th of July 2010. It all started in Geneva where at a classical music concert in the Geneva 5 Star Hotel, what started out as a disturbance in the corridor outside the auditorium suddenly turned deadly serious as high explosives cut through the floor of the corridor and dumped everyone in it onto the cellars below. Initially there were massive reports of casualties, but in fact those reports now seem to have somewhat overzealous, as nobody appears to have been killed, and despite significant blood being found by investigators at the scene, there appear to be no seriously persons injured being treated in the hospitals.
Then the scene moves to Antwerp, where at around midnight there was a bomb explosion at a warehouse in the commercial district that caused the entire building to collapse. Again, no reports of casualties, though once more there are signs that persons were present in the building, and investigators believe that at some point, up to four people were trapped beneath the rubble, even though rescue teams eventually found nobody there.
Finally we move to an upper class residential area of Antwerp, where a major attack occurred on a mansion in the early hours of the morning. There seems to have been a pitched battle with guns and small artillery, as bystanders reported both shots and explosions. Security services upon arriving at the scene found devastation, and the house appears to have been mostly demolished in the battle.
This is where the facts end and the speculation begins. In Geneva, the supermodel Sapphire, who had courted controversy earlier this year when her nude image was flashed across all the screen in Times Square for about 20 seconds in a cyber attack eventually blamed on Chinese crime lords, arrived unexpectedly at the concert, looking even more splendid than usual. The hosts of the concert were quick to take advantage of the additional publicity to be gained from Sapphire’s arrival, but this may in the end have been a short sighted gain, as she appears to have had little interest in the concert itself. Reports have emerged that she spent some time wandering aimlessly around the hotel, and eventually had to be escorted to her seat in time to allow the concert to start. Then, hardly had it commenced before she was heard having a heated exchange with a security guard at the doors of the auditorium right when the bomb attack outside the doors happened. In the subsequent confusion, she appears to have left the hotel, and indeed left Switzerland, where there is no record of her ever having arrived in the country that day.
Links between the second attack and Sapphire are less easy to find, so at that point we will have to settle on the fact that it took place in Antwerp, which is her home town as the only link.
However, the link between her and the third attack is the most significant, in that the house that was attacked and mostly destroyed was that of her father, the retired gemstone cutter, Nicholaas Dragan, who has prepared the jewels for several European Royal occasions over the last forty years.
Was she a victim of this wave of terror, or is she involved in a conspiracy that is worthy of the novels she writes under the pen name Fenna Tavernier, which often concern gemstones and international crime and terror? How did all these attacks take place and yet no casualties be found? Was Sapphire in fact one of the missing persons from the warehouse attack, where police found blood but no bodies? At this time, even if the authorities are not looking FOR Sapphire in connection with this wave of terror, we humbly suggest that perhaps they should look AT her at least.
Sooooo, anybody know a good PR-person? Someone clued in to all of this?