In Dutch/Belgian news there seems to be a recent trend of giving figures of the ‘enemy’ dumb nicknames.
Saw a video about a Chinese arms dealer, who was called ‘The Chinese Ghost’. A while ago I saw a video about a Russian arms dealer, called ‘Death’ (yes really, that’s it). Saw some other videos on other people, with guys called ‘The Monster of [forgotthename], The Butcher, The Brains’ or whatever.
It’s just proper weird. Like, these people aren’t propably even named like that. And it’s always in between quotation marks. Just seems like lazy writing.
You gotta give the journalists some slack - coming up with silly nicknames for national enemies cuts through the monotony of a day of rewording press releases from the ministry of foreign affairs.