Angela de Jong was spoken to very sternly in Shownieuws because she continues to attack Marco Borsato. She receives a corrective slap from reporter Janine Schuinder. “Blackmail.”
It appears that Marco Borsato has been partially rehabilitated since he was acquitted in the fornication case against him. Ultimately, there was so little convincing evidence that the Public Prosecution Service even decided not to appeal. Although there was no question of fornication with an underage girl, Angela de Jong continues to puke on him.
Angela pukes
What Angela is especially furious about? Marco once received a panicked call from Nathalie, the mother of his complainant Asmara. Why? Because that Asmara was screaming in her bed in an Exorcist-like manner – something about a break-up. Marco had to calm her down, arrived, but was told on the stairs that she was lying unclothed in her room.
Very strange that the mother then calls Marco, but in the end the singer is able to enter that room to begin his exorcism. And for that reason Angela never wants to hear Marco’s music again, even though ultimately nothing untoward happened in that room. In fact, when she hears a Marco hit, she immediately needs a bowl.
‘It’s an acquittal’
Shownieuws reporter Janine Schuinder believes that an acquittal is simply an acquittal. She points out what Marco’s lawyer Gert-Jan Knoops said about this. “What Knoops also said immediately after the verdict was that society must respect and accept the verdict. That it is simply an acquittal.”
She criticizes critics like Angela who just keep hammering away. “Of course you still hear a lot about him being vilified here and there. That this has to be done at some point,” says the journalist. in the show section.
‘It’s done’
Janine gives Angela a serious reprimand. “There should at least be in the media… Like Angela de Jong, who does not say nice things about Marco Borsato and sympathizes very much with the complainant. You know, at some point it has to be over. It is the rule of law that we have here. He has simply been acquitted, that’s it.”
Colleague Bart Ettekoven: “Yes, but we also have freedom of expression, so if Angela de Jong would like to write that down, that should be allowed.”
Great platform
That should be allowed, Janine agrees, but: “Then you have to take into account that she does have a large platform, I think.”
Bart fears the worst for Marco: “Look at Glennis Grace. Three years later we still joke when she talks about the supermarket. That will take years.”
Presenter Dyantha Brooks concludes: “This case is different because it involves an acquittal, but it still sticks with you forever.”