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In the film "Taken," the daughter of an ex-Delta Force (or some other black-ops entity) operator is kidnapped in Paris by a gang of Albanian sex traffickers. Said operator, played by Liam Neeson, flies to Paris and proceeds to dismantle said gang, rescue his daughter, and ventilate the rich Arab who was trying to carry her away, all while exposing corruption in the Parisian police force. He then manages to evade any investigation and return to America.

So what if the events of the film had actually happened? If at least some of the Parisian police are in league with the traffickers, the French government as a whole might be unaware of what's going on until the bodies are found. The DF operator might have a window of opportunity to get himself and his daughter out of the country before the French government starts hunting him. Particularly since he came via his ex-wife's new husband's private jet, so it's not like he needs to buy tickets at an airport and can thus be flagged that way.

Now what?

I have not seen the movie (the premise is somewhat upsetting--how many girls get abducted by sex traffickers and how many of them have killing-machine dads able to rescue them?), so I am not aware of how many surviving witnesses there were, let alone witnesses who could identify him.

However, I could imagine the French government being volcanically pissed off about the whole situation and pulling out all the stops to see Just What Happened. If they discover the identity of the perpetrator, I could imagine they'd demand extradition, although he could plead that his daughter was in immediate danger (the whole "96 hours" thing) and there was no other choice.

Plus I could imagine the man becoming an American folk hero and millions being raised for his legal defense fund if the US government moves against him.

However, the French aren't the only people he needs to worry about...

Given Albania's rather tribal nature, I imagine there are a whole lot of PO'd brothers, uncles, cousins, etc. However, if the protagonist was someone unknown to them, they might assume the slaughter was perpetrated by a rival gang and we might end up with an intra-Albanian mafia war. However, if they do figure out who did it, I could imagine all of them heading for the US with bloodshed on their minds.

Plus there's the matter of the rich Arab who gets his head shot off while trying to negotiate. If he has influential friends or relatives, they'd pull out the stops to see what happened and take revenge, particularly if they're Saudis.

(The al-Sauds have an unhealthy amount of influence in the US, Britain, and elsewhere.)
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