Mohamed Ben Ghalbon on 17 April 1984 with the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher with bullets fired from the Libyan Embassy in London while she was on duty organising a peaceful protest by Libyan opponents of the regime outside the Embassy in St. James Square. Mr. Ben Ghalbon and his family were placed under 24 hours armed police protection for several weeks since the beginning of the bombing campaign. Their lives returned to normality and the children resumed school only after diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya were severed on 23 April 1984 and England was totally rid of Gaddafi’s agents. Ben
The Policewoman "Bosnia Diaries", which was filmed a couple of years earlier in Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars. "Bosnia Diaries" would eventually be released in 2005. The two films were post-produced simultaneously, influencing each other both in style and theme. The darkness, realism and harshness of "The Policewoman" clearly echoes the Bosnian War experienced by Sapinho. That experience of war would cause a great change to his vision of the world, leading him, when shooting "The Policewoman", to discover in Portugal things he thought had only happened in Bosnia in consequence of the war. It made him realize that, after all, they