The The Voice band leader, who was discredited in January 2022 after a broadcast of the program angry, no longer has to appear in court.
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Rietbergen’s lawyer, Wout Morra, believes that there is ‘justice’. “In this case there was a huge difference between what the complainant publicly told and the reality as it showed from the investigation. In my opinion Jeroen Rietbergen was wrongly accused,” said Morra.
Linda de Mol responds to a statement about partner Jeroen Rietbergen
His partner Linda de Mol responds: “I have been behind Jeroen in this case and I did that on the basis of facts from the file and things that I immediately knew they were not right.”
She continues: “There is a very big difference between cross-border behavior and a sexual offense. If you give the first one and openly apologize for it, that does not mean that you would have done the second. If I had believed that, our relationship would definitely not have had a new chance. This case was created in a Live Time. I hope it has finally been loved.”
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According to the prosecutor at the Court, after extensive investigation, the Public Prosecution Service still finds that the declaration is rattling and insufficient evidence that Rietbergen has been guilty of rape. Moreover, the OM doubts whether there is a legally coercion. The court follows that reasoning.
The OM announced Rietbergen in March 2023. More than a year later, the public prosecutor returned to that decision. That was after hearing new witnesses and Jeroen Rietbergen himself. The interrogations showed that the complainant did not speak the truth on essential points. The investigation also showed that the woman’s claim that she would have been abused did not fit in with her behavior afterwards.
‘Eating rusk with Jeroen Rietbergen’
For example, in an interview she later stated that she ‘wanted to eat a biscuit with Jeroen Rietbergen’. A screenshot of that statement she applied to the band leader of The Voice. At a time after the claimed abuse, the woman explained to a witness: “If I do my best, I can get it.”
Although Jeroen Rietbergen for the angry episode, in which sexual cross-border behavior was denounced at The Voice, confessed that he had been guilty of ‘relationships of a sexual nature’, he always denied that there was coercion. That was claimed by one of the participants to The Voice – the later complainant. The woman reported in 2022 after she was encouraged in the Beau talk show.