They tied him up, put a noose around his head and beat him with chains. That robbery last summer left Hans Ariëns (62) from Altforst with a spinal cord injury. A reckoning, whispered the region. Not true, says Ariëns himself: “I am the victim of a brutal robbery.”
Dogs barking in the middle of the night. Rise. Go look downstairs. Pepper spray. Prickling eyes, tied hands. A gag in the mouth and noose around the neck. Three robbers, who keep beating him with a chain. They want to know where ‘the money’ is.
Seriously injured, Hans Ariëns remains behind in the hall near his front door that early morning of August 26. It then takes almost an hour before the neighbor finds him and the ambulance arrives. In the end, he can return home after 28 hospital days and 6.5 weeks of rehabilitation in the Sint Maartens Clinic. In a wheelchair. Presumably forever.
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When they had been beating me for a while, I kept myself unconscious. Otherwise they might have beaten me to death
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