“I would call the police weterings. You are crazy. I will melt the cancer. I pull your head off.” The threats to Mayor Theo Weterings on the Facebook page of Leon R. (58) don’t lie. And next to the mayor he has threatened six others. The public prosecutor demanded seven months in prison against the Tilburger in the court in Breda in Breda.
Leon R. is suspected of having threatened his victims in October and November last year. He did not only do that online, according to the threat of an employee of a Safety House. He waved a wooden object with iron pins in the direction of the employee. “It’s your turn. You are also going,” he said.
In the same period he emailed the receptionist of Zorgcentrum Tof Wonen that he would throw a hand grenade in the courtyard. Not much later he posted several threats on his Facebook page, including the address of the Tilburg mayor.
Leon R. himself has an explanation for it. He says his computer has been hacked and that a chip with an antenna has been placed in his head. “I have no fault, I was provoked,” he says, and he raises his voice.
Moreover, he really wouldn’t be that stupid to put such things on Facebook. “I am an inventor. My world investments, NASA is still studying, but I don’t want to blow too high off the tower,” he explains. “Why don’t you work with a lie detector?”
It is clear that Leon R. is angry and frustrated. He calls the two public prosecutors ‘criminal’ and the judge must ask him several times during the case to stop screaming and pointing.
Leon R. is currently in custody in Vught, ‘a concentration camp’ as he calls it. The public prosecutor finds a prison sentence of seven months in place. Among other things because ‘Mr.’ was not in a psychosis when he did the threats and because the victims have a public task.
The judge will rule in two weeks.