The director of the extra secure establishment in Vught must investigate whether it is possible that the Ridouan Taghi and his son Faissal, who were convicted of lifelong, can have contact with each other. Both are stuck in Vught, but have never seen or spoken to each other there.
The EBI has always rejected the father’s requests for this, but a compliance judge has now indicated ‘the director to consider alternatives to contact between father and son’. However, the director has made it known, according to Taghi’s detention lawyer.
‘Client is stripped of every form of human treatment’
“This rejection makes it clear that the client has since been stripped of any form of human treatment and that – to the extent that it was already the case – no human detention conditions are offered to him,” says lawyer Thomas van der Horst. “The fact that the client is not even allowed to look at his son is purely sorrow and has nothing to do with safety.”
According to the lawyer, the father wants to know how his son is doing, but he is not even allowed to send short notes to him in which he writes ‘completely innocent’ things like ‘I love you’ and ‘I miss you’. According to Van der Horst, a proposed ‘viewing moment’ in which father can only see his son has been rejected.
Fear of social unrest
The EBI has informed Van der Horst that contact between father and son is ‘inadmissible’ because of the (very large) risks of your client, the far -reaching (also recent) attempts of your client to have unauthorized contacts, the fact that he and his son are both deemed to be part of the same criminal collaboration and the son of your client has been putting the tire in the Bijdbingverbandverbandenverband Preparation acts to free your client from the EBI in a violent way “.
The management ‘social unrest’ also fears when it becomes known that father and son can come together within the EBI. Last year it turned out that Taghi and a co -head suspect had briefly contact in the Marengo Saïd R. liquidation process. There was a fuss about that.
International drug trafficking
Taghi has been in the EBI since his arrest at the end of 2019. Faissal T. (24) has been in the Dutch prison since last year. Among other things, he is suspected of participating in a criminal organization that deals with international drug trafficking. The Public Prosecution Service thinks he has taken over the criminal activities of his father after his arrest.