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Blacker's intervention was essential to prevent the situation from escalating further and to avoid the three detainees suffering further harassment. But the case had even surpassed Blacker: three complaints for damage to qualified workers, an investigation into the inspectors' dereliction of duty by not verifying the identity of the boys before proceeding were too serious for a chief engineer or even for Mitrex, the head of the officials involved.

Although Blacker tried to implicate Mitrex, in reality beyond the latter's initial orders and pressures upon receiving the complaint for it to be investigated, he had not done anything wrong. He had been interrupted before he could do what he had planned.