“A fierce incident, a mourning procession was going on,” the police judge today told a 43-year-old man from Assen. The suspect was on trial because he entered a traffic controller on 16 August last year. That happened at the Hillig more Hillig Nature Cemetery at Eext.
The victim managed to stop the procession and he dived away from the upcoming car at the last minute. The Assenaar could not remember ‘this Akkefietje’. He was being treated for a brain tumor during that period. At the hands of the irradiations, he was not himself, the man said. He came to the hearing without a lawyer.
The traffic controller also appeared in the session room. He did not have to pay compensation. He had come to hear what someone inspired to do that. It hurt him that the suspect was talking about a ‘Akkefietje’. “You can know, I am still awake at night,” he told court.
The traffic controller had done everything to stop the car. Instead of braking, the suspect would have given gas. According to witnesses, the car drove at full speed on the funeral procession. “This could have been a disaster,” he said. The fright is with him and his fellow remuneration regulators since then, the man outlined.
The Assenaar did not want this so much, he said. He cannot remember a mourning procession. “Otherwise I would certainly have stopped,” the man said. According to him, his medical condition played a major role. The public prosecutor then wanted more medical information and proposed to postpone the case.
The judge also believes that this information is needed to determine the outcome of the case. The suspect is given a month to consult the medical reports to the court. It is not yet known when the case will continue.