The police now have five suspects in the picture for threatening and insulting writer Pim Lammers. A spokesman for the Central Netherlands police reported this on Thursday.
Four suspects have now been heard, the police will talk to a fifth person. The intention is that the police will soon transfer the files to the Public Prosecution Service, according to the police. The Public Prosecution Service then decides whether the suspects will also be prosecuted. Lammers, who grew up in Norg, has a conversation about the case with the public prosecutor at the beginning of June.
Lammers resigned his assignment for the Children’s Book Week because he had received death threats. These followed online attacks against the author over an old adult story he wrote nearly a decade ago, about the relationship between a teenage boy and his trainer. The fuss arose after a Christian lobby group, presenter Monique Smit and model Kim Feenstra shared a few sentences from the story online and without any context.
According to a spokesperson, the police take the matter “very seriously: threats are a serious and criminal offense. These people thought they could get away with online threats to a writer. The free word is a great asset that we want and must protect and guard.”