Dutch judge decides on surrender of suspects Van Quickenborne kidnapping plan
It will decide whether the suspects will be handed over to our country. They themselves oppose it.
Three Dutch people aged 20, 29 and 48 were arrested on Saturday 24 September in The Hague and Leidschendam. The fourth suspect, a 21-year-old Dutchman, was arrested the next day on the street in The Hague.
The Belgian police had followed the suspects from Van Quickenborne’s house in Kortrijk to the Dutch border. They had left a car at the house. An automatic rifle and bottles of petrol are said to have been found in it.
Van Quickenborne had to go into hiding and himself reported in a video message that the authorities had foiled a kidnapping. “Everything points to it coming from the drug mafia,” he said later.
The International Court of Justice usually makes a decision after two weeks.