Frank Dane steps into the breach for André Hazes Jr., who must appear in court together with Monique Westenberg for violating the compulsory education law. “He’s honest.”
André Hazes Jr. risks a criminal record because he took his son from school two weeks earlier without permission last year to travel through America. Little Dré was already five years old at the time and therefore compulsory education. “Then someone has been clicking too”, his good friend Frank Dane snorts on Radio 538.
Criminal record for Andre?
Sidekick Jelte van der Goot finds it very annoying for André, who is a friend of the radio show. “Yes, then there is someone who will bring this out. Did you know that if you don’t follow those rules – and it’s really been a few days – you can get a criminal record for it?”
Frank: “That you keep your child at home or go on vacation?”
Jelte: “Yes, I thought it was a fine of something like 100 euros per day and if you do it more often, that it is also punishable. But you can also get a criminal record and then you can no longer enter America, for example.”
‘He’s honest’
Frank thinks that André has at least been honest. The singer could also have reported his son sick and concealed that holiday, says the radio DJ. “Isn’t it better to be honest: I’m going on vacation, than to pretend your child is sick?”
Jelte: “Yes, anyway.”
Frank: “Yes, but then you can be punished.”
Jelte: “Yes, but I think that is lying… You will eventually get a heavier sentence for that, I think.”
Frank: “Yes, but then you get away with it. Try to prove that your child does not have a cold.”
Jelte: “Then you have to lie properly and not post photos.”
Visa problems
For André, a criminal record would be a disaster, because he is an avid America-goer. “That can get quite annoying because you then get a criminal record and André is of course in America a lot for his documentary, but also very often for his pleasure. That can have consequences for your visa,” says Bart Ettekoven in Shownieuws.
And Rob Goossens in RTL Boulevard: “André is of course quite a commute to America, where he is also working on a documentary, and Americans don’t like taking notes, so when you apply for a visa, you will you just have to state that properly.”
No reaction
Colleague Bridget Maasland then: “So it can actually have very far-reaching consequences in the end?”
Rob agrees. “Now he can no longer decide that he wants to go to New York tomorrow, because from now on – if it does come to a conviction – every time he applies, someone will check whether he is allowed to enter the country.”
André and Monique do not want to respond. Her manager says: “As you know we never comment on private matters, but I know this situation is different from what the juice channels portray.”
More bad news
Viewing professor Tina Nijkamp now has even more bad news for Andre:
