UMCG Ambulance Care does not have to provide the personal data of the 31-year-old Emmenaar who died in July after a violent incident in a coffee shop in Emmen.
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) wanted to see that data in connection with an investigation into the cause of death and whether there was a criminal offense here.
Ambulance care invokes medical privilege. That is right in this case, according to the judge. The circumstances are not so exceptional that the legal privilege must be broken, says the judge.
The Emmenaar went crazy this summer in coffee shop Ankara in Emmen. Some visitors forcefully held the man under duress. Paramedics picked up the man, who later died in hospital.
The OM wanted to know how the man was in the ambulance. According to the judge, the Public Prosecution Service was able to collect a lot of information about the actions that preceded the man’s death, including camera images.
The coroner did have the medical records of the man shortly before his death. A report has been prepared. The expert concluded that the violence played an indirect role in the cause of death.
The Public Prosecution Service can still appeal against this decision.