According to Het Parool, it concerns Abdel Rahman A. The Public Prosecution Service has not confirmed this. “He was no longer approachable and has since passed away,” lawyer Jan-Kees van den Brink told Het Parool. Counsel has assisted A. several times in criminal cases in the past. Because A. was not conscious, he was not able to ask for a lawyer. Van den Brink therefore emphasizes that he speaks on behalf of A.’s mother and not on behalf of his former client.
At the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, Abdel Rahman A., dressed in a camouflage suit to which explosives were attached, walked into the Apple Store on Leidseplein with two firearms. He fired at least four shots at police responding to a report of a robbery and then put a gun to the head of a 44-year-old Bulgarian customer of the store.
