CANADA Canada - Toronto, BlkMale ~40, “the Unknown Person”, refuses to identify himself, Apr'13

[amandab]

The 'Unknown Person': For six years, a man who refuses to identify himself has been held in a Canadian maximum-security prison | National Post

What a wild story! Who is "Herman Emmanuel Fankem"?

 

[lonewanderer]

I've watched more than one highly detailed documentary on this man.

My best guess is that he knows if his real name is revealed, it will lead to much, MUCH, worse findings.

Recalling the information I understand to be true, it seems like if he was truly identified he would be in the position to lose a massive amount of something (probably all of his scam money he has collected over the years) so the smarter play is to just wait it out in jail.

 

[amandab]

I've watched more than one highly detailed documentary on this man.

My best guess is that he knows if his real name is revealed, it will lead to much, MUCH, worse findings.

Recalling the information I understand to be true, it seems like if he was truly identified he would be in the position to lose a massive amount of something (probably all of his scam money he has collected over the years) so the smarter play is to just wait it out in jail.

Oooooh I'd be interested in watching something about him. Do you remember a documentary that you'd recommend?

 

[lonewanderer]

Oooooh I'd be interested in watching something about him. Do you remember a documentary that you'd recommend?

It's not a long video (only 10 minutes) but it is extremely informative and well presented; check out Slightly Sociable on YT. Just search "Slightly Sociable Prisoner" and it should be the first thing that comes up.

 

[Aurora90]

I've watched more than one highly detailed documentary on this man.

My best guess is that he knows if his real name is revealed, it will lead to much, MUCH, worse findings.

Recalling the information I understand to be true, it seems like if he was truly identified he would be in the position to lose a massive amount of something (probably all of his scam money he has collected over the years) so the smarter play is to just wait it out in jail.

Can you point me towards any other documentaries about him? This story has never left my mind. I wonder if he committed war crimes or something? There must be a serious reason he would go to such great lengths to hide his identity....

 

[Aurora90]

He spoke in fluent french. Anyone know of war crimes commited in african american french speaking countries?

 

[Aurora90]

“Madam, I hope that everything you do against me, it will stop,” he replied, in French, via video link from an Ontario prison.

“I will listen to what you have to say, sir,” said the Immigration and Refugee Board’s adjudicator, Aminata Barry, “but I would like to know first of all, am I speaking to the right person?”

“I don’t care,” the man said.

Barry then got just three words into her formal opening of the hearing on April 27, 2017, before his outburst.

“I don’t care what you do, you can go to hell,” the man said as she spoke. “That’s all I have to say to you. Go to hell.”

He stood and started for the door.

“The hearing is not over,” she called out.

“I don’t care. Go to hell,” he called back as he stormed out of the prison’s videoconference room.

The 'Unknown Person': For six years, a man who refuses to identify himself has been held in a Canadian maximum-security prison

The courts have designated the man “the Unknown Person” and he has been behind bars for more than six years because officials don’t know who he is. This puts him in a bizarre state of limbo: Until Canadian officials know his identity and nationality, they cannot deport him; until they can deport him, they don’t want to release him.

 

[Aurora90]

Despite insisting he needed to speak to French diplomats, he twice refused to be taken to meet with them.

almost a breakthrough. But how does a fingerprint check on back positive on more than one person??

Police in Britain, meanwhile, said a fingerprint check came back positive for the name Bouon Emmanuel Febile, a citizen of Cameroon. Any elation at a breakthrough was muted by a follow up cable from London: It was also positive for a different citizen of Cameroon, a citizen of Haiti, and a man of unknown citizenship.

The Unknown Person

 

[amandab]

almost a breakthrough. But how does a fingerprint check on back positive on more than one person??

The Unknown Person

Could he have multiple (well-established) identities?