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Taiwan "hero" said to have sordid past in Reunion



When Hu Wen-hu returned to Taiwan in mid-August, he told court officials his boat dropped him on Reunion Island by accident in 1981. He said he had returned to Taiwan to get identification papers so he could apply for a residence permit for Reunion -- which is French territory -- and marry a local woman.

Taiwanese media hailed him as a modern-day Robinson Crusoe, after the fictional shipwrecked castaway, and carried detailed reports about his purported romances with three Reunion women.

But while Daniel Defoe's 17th century hero was washed up on a virtually uninhabited Caribbean island, Reunion, east of Madagascar, has a population of 700,000 and is fully plugged into the modern world.

On Monday, Taiwan's United Daily News, citing the Web site of the French-language Le Journal de la Reunion, reported that Hu served five years in jail for killing a man in 1985 and served 18 months for a sex offense involving a 7-year-old girl in 2006.


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