Glennis Grace owes the mild sentence from the Public Prosecution Service to her talk show performance with Eva Jinek, thinks media expert Rob Goossens. “That just keeps her out of the box now.”
There is disappointment among critics now that Glennis Grace does not have to go to prison after her extreme misconduct in the Jumbo. At least, probably not: the Public Prosecution Service has only demanded a suspended prison sentence of one month, although the judge can deviate from this. In addition to that suspended sentence, a community service order of 200 hours was also demanded.
bastard behavior
Crime journalist John van den Heuvel has followed the hearing and is stunned by the misbehavior of Glennis and her vigilante group. “It is shameful what happened there. This is exactly the bastard behavior that people are completely done with and are also afraid of,” he says at the desk of RTL Boulevard.
He thinks it is terrible what the boys and girls of Jumbo have been through. “You have nothing but compassion for the victims and the witnesses. It is vandals, fighters and violent offenders who destroy the entire store. There have been little boys who tried to escape through the emergency exit from all that violence.”
‘Thanks to Eva Jinek’
The Public Prosecution Service has taken into account Glennis’ public punishment in its sentence, to the surprise of Domien Verschuuren, among others. He speaks of a ‘BN’er privilege’.
TV connoisseur Rob Goossens agrees. “The negative attention for this case has led to a more lenient sentence. Then you would almost say: it was genius that she sat there with Jinek and made herself the most hated woman in the Netherlands, because that just keeps her out of the box.”
Inverted world
Unbelievable, Rob thinks. “I think it’s a little bit of the upside-down world, I must say.”
Glennis’s lawyer thinks she has been punished enough by the media. During the session yesterday, he pointed out, among other things, the reporting of RTL Boulevard. “The fact that she sat down with Jinek herself does not contribute at all,” said Boulevard reporter Aran Bade cynically.
Son of Glennis
Glennis’ son, who also misbehaved in the Jumbo, is on trial today. Court reporter Saskia Belleman in Jinek: “That son is to blame for the whole case because he has hung up a nonsense story to his mother about what happened there. He is the one who killed his mother’s career.”
Anthony, as the son is called, causes fear in and around the Jumbo. “He has also threatened to hire people to give those guys two bullets in the head. That all makes a huge impression. The people who work there think: is this over or will we have to look over our shoulder later?”
