On Wednesday, the Public Prosecution Service in Maastricht demanded community service against a man and a woman for threatening GGD staff in Heerlen. The Public Prosecution Service demanded 100 hours of community service against the woman, eighty hours against the man. Both have also been demanded a suspended prison sentence of two months and a ban on going to a GGD injection site for the next six months. The judge will give a verdict at 2 p.m. on Thursday.
The 48-year-old Mark F. and the 49-year-old Sandra M., both from the municipality of Heerlen, are against vaccination. Together with allies, they invaded a GGD puncture site on 9 and 10 February and harassed employees and visitors. They accused employees of murder and genocide. They refused to leave after requests to do so from the GGD.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the suspects are guilty of assault, threats, coercion, breaching the peace and insulting the GGD employees. Thus F. said: “You will be hanging by a string at once.” He later explained this statement to the police, saying that people’s tribunals will soon be set up, where this could be one of the consequences. Sandra M. loudly accused GGDs of genocide, and called them “mongolians” and “murderers”. She also threatened an employee with the words “you are going to die”. She hit an employee, she says in an emergency, when he tried to take a cell phone from her.
“You stay away from social workers,” said the public prosecutor. “They deliberately used force and unlawfully made their point of view clear.” Through a lawyer, the GGD Zuid-Limburg told the court that the group of intruders had disseminated images of the incident on the internet without permission, as a result of which employees have seriously damaged their privacy.
Both suspects stated during the summary court hearings that they meant well and offered their apologies.