The tears roll over the cheeks of 74-year-old Joke Heyne from Helmond. Friday afternoon she was robbed of all her jewelry in the middle of the street. While in her mobility scooter she is on her way to the cemetery, she is approached and the jewelry of her fingers, arm and neck disappear. “I don’t get it. I don’t get this processed, “she says crying.
The jewelry that has been removed are very dear to Joke. They are all golden pieces that she received from her deceased husband. Joke was on her way to her husband’s grave when a car blocked her the road.
The robbery happened in a devious way. The police report to Omroep Brabant that she sees this method more often. This may be a traveling gang.
“I didn’t realize anything, but everything was Foetsie.”
Joke is approached by a woman from a black Volkswagen with a foreign license plate. “I help everyone and I talk to everyone,” says Joke. She gets into a conversation and out of the blue the woman puts on a bracelet with her. “I said,” No, no, I don’t want anything. ” And I want to go. But I couldn’t go anywhere. ” The woman takes off the bracelet and at the same time Joke’s gold bracelet goes off. But she doesn’t realize that.
Then she gets a chain. Again Joke is starting to shout that she doesn’t want anything. And even now the golden chain is taken from her neck in that devious way. Again Joke doesn’t notice that. But the woman was not ready yet. “She grabbed a sock. Did it over the hands. “For you,” the woman said. I said, “No, I don’t need anything, I don’t want.” I didn’t realize anything, but everything was fetsie, “says Joke emotionally.
She only finds out in the pharmacy that her rings and bracelet are gone. She noticed that her chain has also disappeared until much later. “I panicked. I screamed, I have been crying, I stood swearing. I don’t understand anything, I can’t understand what she did. “
“I don’t dare to go to the cemetery anymore.”
Eventually a necklace with a photo of her husband, a bracelet with charms, a wedding ring, a ring with brilliant stone and a ring with a bloodstone were taken. “All fetsie. And I didn’t realize anything. “
Five days after the robbery, the tears still run down the cheeks at Joke. “I am sad and angry. I don’t get this processed, I am devastated. I have been taking care of my husband for almost 28 years, but now I am neglecting him. I just don’t dare to go to the cemetery anymore. “
Daughter Natasja cannot comprehend what happened to her mother. “My mother does not trust anyone anymore.” Through a call, Natasja knows how to come up with video images of the car in question. “Despite this good action, we have unfortunately not yet able to link the images to concrete suspects,” says a police spokesperson. “This method is unfortunately more common.”
Joke has only one hope: that her dear jewelry will come back. “What doesn’t matter, but give them back.”
