Top criminal Jan B. (74) from Hulten denies on Wednesday that he is part of a group of sovereigns who wanted to commit terrorist attacks. According to his lawyer, B. would have delivered a weapon to make a profit and not for a terrorist purpose. “He is an example of the eternal Einzelgänger,” the lawyer told during the first preparatory session in the case.
The police raided the house of arms dealer Jan B. in Hulten on 11 June of this year. On that day, a total of eight people were arrested at several raids in the Netherlands. The police found weapons, ammunition, narcotic drugs, possible explosives and possibly dangerous substances.
Weapons were also found at Jan B.. He is an acquaintance of police and justice. Earlier he received almost six years in prison for the trade in weapons. The lawyer of B. acknowledges on Wednesday that he is known as a arms dealer. “He is not a sovereign, not a terrorist and absolutely no participant in any group,” he said.
Profit motive
According to his lawyer, B. did not know about the ideas of his fellow suspect when he delivered the weapon to him in February.
B. Sold the weapon to former lawyer Arno van K. The former lawyer would have spoken with two co-suspects during a recorded conversation about placing a bomb at the CJIB or at Mayor Sybrand van Haersma Buma van Leeuwarden.
Demonstration Vught
Van K. is stuck in Vught. In August, about five hundred people demonstrated for his release. The lawyer has previously reprimanded three times, partly because he had exceeded the rules of conduct of the legal profession. He was eventually deleted as a counselor. He was also a board member of an organization that distributed disinformation about corona vaccinations.
Van K. also firmly denied Wednesday that he had something to do with the sovereigns group. He called his statements in the car ‘a bit stupid’.
The arrests were made in an investigation into a group of sovereigns. They probably wanted to commit terrorist attacks on officials or government agencies around the NATO summit in The Hague. That was apparent today at the first preparatory session of the case in the court in Leeuwarden.
Together with Jan B. there were four suspects in court on Wednesday. They are stuck during the trial, the judge decided on Wednesday. Three other suspects are free and come to court at a later time.