According to a police spokeswoman, insults have been reported against both the disguised man and a group of men standing next to him when the video was made. The police submit the incident to the Public Prosecution Service, “we will proceed with it on that basis, or not.”
The man was filmed in the Badhuisstraat in Scheveningen. In the video, a woman asks the man what makes him put on the suit. “I’m going to have a nice day,” he replies. The woman asks him again why, so close to the commemoration of the victims of the Second World War. For the answer, the man refers to the group of men in casual clothes, who are standing around him. What they say is not quite understandable. The disguised man asks the woman to stop filming, which she does.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells the ANP that she is the one who reported the men. When the camera went off, the man in disguise told her that Saturday was “a special day.” “On this day we change clothes,” he said, according to the woman.
The woman had seen the group of men sitting in a cafe where she was also sitting, she explains further. One of them changed into the uniform. When the men left the cafe, the uniform package was left on a table. “It said something like ‘WWII German Soldier’. So they knew very well what kind of outfit it was.” Police say no report has been made at the time of the incident. “So we weren’t there ourselves.”