Maxime Meiland has chosen a lawyer in Sébas Diekstra who, just like her, loves attention, Evert Santegoeds sneers. “Yes, he wanted to be like that again moment of fame to take.”
The defamation case against Maxime Meiland will take place behind closed doors on January 19, because the man she accuses of rape would like to remain as anonymous as possible. Maxime has never reported the crime and has no known evidence or witnesses, but she continues to accuse the man of rape in books.
A loser
Sébas Diekstra, one of Maxime’s second lawyers – the other is Yvonne Coldeweijer’s – is cynical about the request to handle the case behind closed doors. The lawyer calls it ‘remarkable that this request has been made, given the fact that they have been overactively seeking out the media in recent weeks’.
And that is of course a bit lame of Sébas, who also supports the Voice victims. The man gives two interviews to defend himself after years and years of accusations, and then he is the one who ‘overactively seeks out the media’. “It’s really a shame to say that,” says the accused’s lawyer.
Moment of fame
Evert Santegoeds understands that Sébas is so disappointed that the case is being handled behind closed doors. “Yes, there goes his moment of fame,” he sneers in the podcast Strictly Private.
He continues: “Yes, that man is quite fond of publicity and he would have wanted it differently, I think. But yes, that boy has a reasonable interest in not revealing his name. Let’s first make it clear that he didn’t do it, then he can still tell his story openly.”
Court
How anonymous the boy can remain remains to be seen, Evert concludes. “Yes, how that will work, I don’t know what we will see and how that boy will somehow get into the court and get out again. We’ll experience it. January 19 in The Hague…”