On May 23, the police received a kidnapping in Spanbroek in the afternoon. A man from Austria is said to have been taken by four others, after which the victim was held in a chalet on a holiday park for a few days. After a large -scale investigation, the police knew who this man is and who is suspected of taking it.
Or not kidnapping
The four suspects have denied the suspects, and said that the man was constantly under the influence of cocaine and marijuana. “They say that he was completely voluntarily staying in the chalet, but had left it in confused condition on 26 May,” said a spokesperson for the Noord-Holland District Court. “According to the suspects, the departure to the house in Hoorn was also voluntary.” The men indicated that she wanted to help the alleged victim.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the story of the suspects was unbelievable. There would be one conflict about a drug debt of 57,000 euros Who had the Austrian with one of the suspects.
Acquittal due to insufficient evidence
The public prosecutor states that the man ‘guarded and beaten day and night with a bamboo box’ and lived in constant fear. He would also be intimidated with a firearm and bullet. But the judge came to a completely different conclusion. All suspects were acquitted.
According to the court, the stories of the man who says he was abducted were too vague and not always logical. Sometimes his story was even difficult to follow. For example, he told the police that he could leave the chalet, but that he did not succeed, perhaps because he had used too much cocaine. He also said that he was held in a kind of cell, but such a space was not found in the chalet. There was no room with ditches or something like that. And at no time the man told anyone that he had been abducted, while, according to the court, he had the chance.
According to the court, there was too little other evidence to support his story. All in all, the judge did not find the evidence strong enough to say that there was really a kidnapping. That is why the suspects are acquitted.