Julien C., the man who killed an 8-year-old boy at a primary school in Hoogerheide almost twenty years ago, will also remain in TBS for the next two years. Supervised living is the maximum attainable, experts say. And test leave is still far away.
On December 1, 2006, Julien C. invaded primary school. In a classroom he put eight -year -old Jesse death. Why C. did that has never been clarified.
It is clear that he was struggling with all kinds of psychological disorders at the time, he also smoked a lot of weed. After a long-term process, C. eventually received almost twelve years in prison for manslaughter and compulsory treatment in a TBS clinic. And there is still 40-year-old C..
Leave
As with many TBS people, it went by trial and error. But Julien C. became more stable. He ‘grew’. For example, he has had permission for unaccompanied leave since May 2022. A year later that was expanded with shopping and leisure leave. So he can sometimes sit on a terrace. In February 2024 it was expanded with national leave. At the beginning of this year, his freedoms were expanded with so -called transmural leave. That means that he is still under the supervision of the TBS clinic but can live separately in an ‘external resocialization department’.
“We are going to work towards a form of guided living, not to live independently. But what will look in concrete terms? That depends on what it will look like in the coming period. We look at an instance that can deal with autism. It will be a search picture,” said an expert from the TBS clinic two weeks ago in the court in Breda.
Museum visit
Julien C. also appeared there, together with a supervisor. He was clear to the question of the judges how he was doing. “Good, positive, it feels good.” C. is looking for an internship, he wants to develop further. For example, a volunteer helps him with a museum visit.
Because Julien C. just letting go, the expert emphasized. “Sir needs long -term guidance. He does not always understand how others think and how the world works. If you work step by step towards more freedom, we ask him that he shows more responsibility. C. would not quite understand, because he thinks it is less responsibility.”
The psychologists and psychiatrists around him see that he needs help for a long time, but that C. thinks the opposite. “Sir has something else in his head. He sees himself living independently.”
Danger
The most important question always followed those judges at TBS cases: what if the TBS treatment now falls away? “If you did that now, you actually put him in the situation that it becomes complicated. Then the risks such as substance use, no more medication rise, risks with people work and income.” But it does not automatically mean that he would do the same as almost twenty years ago, “it was added.
C. simply cannot stand on its own two feet. That is why the next step, test leave, is not in sight, the expert said. Only after such a test leave can the judge decide to slow down the TBS. At C. it may mean that you are just years further and are still in TBS.
‘Dangling’
That is why his lawyer asked a horizon to focus on. “The only thing I wanted to achieve is brightness. I think it’s going too slowly. Really on his Jan-Boeren whistles.” Yes, the lawyer praises the clinic and for his client. “He functions stably. No incidents. He is doing very well, there is a rising line in it. But now we are dangling, I don’t like that for him.”
The public prosecutor also did not dare to look far ahead, but called it necessary for the TBS to be extended by two years. “The moment all structure would fall away, the risk must be estimated high.” Julien C. himself agreed with the extension. “I can live with this,” he said.
Step by step
Two weeks after this Friday, the judges took over all the advice. “A guided form of living is assumed as the highest attainable, given the risk of overestimation, overvaking, the need for limiting behavior and ideal images and offering structure to function daily,” says the verdict. The judges do not think it is going too slow. Returning to society goes step by step, with always evaluating how things are going. Julien C. is not there yet, that much is clear.
In the meantime, the clinic will look for a suitable residential group for C. ‘In the long term, it will be looked at at which guided housing [veroordeelde] It is best to go, given his autism and personality problems. ”
How that goes in two years will become clear. Then the court looks again at the steps that Julien C. has taken.