Suspects of the threat case Van Quickenborne are handed over to Belgium
This has been decided by the International Legal Aid Chamber (IRK) of the Amsterdam court. A fourth Dutch suspect, the 21-year-old man who was arrested in The Hague, no longer opposes his surrender to our country.
Three Dutch people aged 20, 29 and 48 were arrested on Saturday 24 September in The Hague and Leidschendam. The fourth suspect, a 21-year-old Dutchman, was arrested the next day on the street in The Hague. The surrender would be carried out sooner than the maximum period of ten days, after which the four suspects will appear in Belgium before the investigating judge, who can decide to arrest him.
The Belgian police had followed the suspects from Van Quickenborne’s house in Kortrijk to the Dutch border. They had left a car at the house. An automatic rifle and bottles of petrol are said to have been found in it. Van Quickenborne had to go into hiding and himself reported in a video message that the authorities had foiled a kidnapping. “Everything points to it coming from the drug mafia,” he said later.
