It General Newspaper may again be present at sessions in the Marengo process from 1 October. Report that the newspaper and the Amsterdam court on Friday, after a conversation between editor-in-chief Rennie Rijpma and the court management of the court. The measure that it AD was imposed in mid-July, it will therefore be withdrawn three months earlier than announced.
At the end of June it sent AD mistakenly broadcast live images from the courtroom via his website. According to the court, the images would have been on display for “about an hour”, according to the newspaper it was “a few minutes”. Names of those involved were uncensored. That happened according to the AD due to an “internal error” that was corrected immediately when the broadcast was discovered. The court decided to exclude the newspaper from hearings until the end of December.
The court decision has been the subject of much criticism. Chairman of the board of the Society of Editors in Chief, NOS editor-in-chief Marcel Gelauff, called the move in a letter to the court an “unacceptable attack on journalism” and “inappropriate”. Although the fault of the AD ‘serious’, the society had ‘no understanding for the gravity of the measure taken’. In the conversation between the AD and the court, representatives of the society and the Dutch Association of Journalists were also present.