Last week, five suspects from one group appeared in court. This week it is the turn of the suspected opponent: four suspects, all between 21 and 23 years old, who, according to justice, are responsible for the attacks in Purmerend. The case is being handled in the heavily secured Judicial Complex at Schiphol. Four days have been set aside for the extensive case.
Storm of violence on both sides
On April 12, a day after the first shelling in Middenbeemster, it was hit in Purmerend. Around half past four in the morning shots ring out in Boeierstraat. Bullets pierce the facade and windows of a house. According to the Public Prosecution Service, this is a retaliation by Zakaria A. and his co-suspects, a direct response to the violence of the day before.
The following evening the perpetrators struck again. A house on Weverstraat in Purmerend is shot at. “I was sitting on the couch and heard about six shots,” a local resident told NH. But the gunmen shot at the wrong house, police later confirmed. “They had to have someone who was into drugs and in debt,” says the local resident.
After three nights of shootings and an explosion Mayor Ellen van der Selm intervenes: the affected homes will be closed and camera surveillance will be installed.
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