Again a disappointment for Heemkundekring de Baronie van Cranendonck. Last October a statue of Christ was destroyed a week after a restoration she carried out. This happened in the cemetery in Budel. During a lawsuit it became clear that she can forget compensation.
During the session against a man who had pushed the image over, that claim of more than 1100 euros was rejected. “So be it, we have to accept it,” responded Heemkundekring chairman Jac. Biemans.
The perpetrator, although he denied all involvement, was an now 30-year-old asylum seeker who has been exhausted. De Algerijn was also accused of having pulled a cross on a grave at the cemetery of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Visitatatiekerk. The man, Yakoub L., is said to have done this on Saturday 26 October.
When the perpetrator of a crime cannot be traced, it is sometimes stated that the perpetrator is in the cemetery. In this case the perpetrator on a bench in the cemetery on Kerkstraat. A couple who visited the cemetery saw L. there while he was drinking beer and also smoked somewhat.
“There were no other people at the cemetery.”
Suddenly they heard, they later said, a hard blow. They saw how the man dropped an image on the floor. Another witness also heard a blow and saw the Algerian stand by the image. “There were no other people at the cemetery, so this must be the man we are talking about here,” the public prosecutor made clear on Wednesday. The gravener was arrested in his home, he was under the influence.
In the first instance, L. refuted all accusations. Later he acknowledged with the police that he had destroyed a statue of Mary and washed a Jesus statue. During the lawsuit the man made a soulless impression and suddenly he maintained that he “really didn’t do anything” to explain a little later that he no longer knows what happened then.
“In a cemetery you have to keep calm and respect.”
The officer knew better: according to her, there was sufficient evidence: “It is always very annoying if you destroy something from someone and especially when it comes to saints or digging. That involves emotion. At a memorial place like a cemetery you have to keep calm and pay for respect and the suspect did not do that. ”
But yes, what punishment do you put an asylum seeker for a month or two in a prison waiting for extradition? So he’s already stuck. Laying a community service does not make sense either. That is why (for what it is worth) a conditional prison sentence of two weeks was demanded. The judge should also oblige him to pay the damage.
The police judge agreed with the conditional prison sentence, but the compensation did not like the compensation. Only an estimate was submitted and no account. And that while the Jesus image was on his pedestal within two months of vandalism and that it could have been clear how high the exact damage was.
Heemkundekring chairman Jac. Biemans could understand it. “The right must have its course. It’s just a shame for the volunteers who helped recover the image. “
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