Last Tuesday, the police found the body of a person who may have died several months ago in a home in Assen. A police spokesperson confirmed reporting on this on Wednesday evening from the Dagblad van het Noorden.
At the moment, according to the spokesperson, there are no signals that indicate a crime. The police are still investigating when exactly the person died and through which. According to the spokesperson, the police are still waiting for a number of results. That can take a few months, he says.
Agents found the person in a house on Oldambtstraat, after having received a “signal earlier in the day that there were concerns around that address”. The spokesperson indicates that the police cannot just enter a house, but that the police could enter the house last Tuesday with the approval of a person who was also in the house.
According to the Dagblad van het Noorden, the deceased person is a woman. Her adult daughter would have initially kept the police out. The police spokesperson does not say whether it is indeed a woman. Since there are no signals of a crime, the police are very reluctant to share details, says the spokesperson.
He also announced that the police also visited the house in May 2024, but that agents did not enter the home at the time. There was no reason for that at the time and they did not have the authority to do that, according to the spokesperson.