Yasin N. has been released under conditions since this week. He stabbed 16-year-old Nick Bood from Assendelft in 2017 because of a cannabis debt. Father Dirk-Jan is very concerned about this and thinks that he has fooled everyone with his good behavior in prison. “He doesn’t need to be released for me anymore.”
Yasin N. has served his prison sentence and has gone through youth detention and he has been released from detention under certain conditions since Monday. He must go through an education and training program so that he can gradually return to society. He is not allowed to contact Nick’s relatives and has a restraining order. Dirk-Jan Bood thinks that the restraining order is important, because he can’t vouch for himself if he meets him: “I’m afraid of him if I meet him.”
weed debt
Last week Dirk-Jan received a letter from his lawyer Richard Korver with the news that Yasin N. will be released after four years. Yasin stabbed Nick to death in April 2017 because of a cannabis debt of several hundred euros. Nick’s father is a press photographer and unsuspectingly went to the stabbing to take pictures of it. There he found out that it was his own son who had been stabbed to death.
Dirk-Jan is still a photographer and still attends fires, accidents and fights every day. There was also a stabbing a few weeks ago that he went after. “A few boys beat another boy up. They also stabbed him in the stomach and leg. When you come home you think: ‘Pff, what a shitty mess’.”
Six months after the murder, a memorial stone for Nick Bood was unveiled. View images of the memorial stone below. Text continues after the video
He avoids the place in Zaandam where his son was stabbed in his daily life, but he sometimes visits it for work. “I went there again because there was a fire around the corner, but I’ll never really go there again.” He did, however, once again place a large bunch of white roses at the memorial stone. “They were stolen before I got in the car.” He can laugh about it now, but that day he drove around the neighborhood looking for someone with a big bunch of white roses.
no revenge
He sees his son’s friends a few times a year. On Nick’s birthday and anniversary, they get together for a drink and to talk about Nick. His old friends also wanted to know when Yasin N. would be released. “We’ll meet him,” they say. But Dirk-Jan advises the boys against that. “You’ve got a whole life ahead of you. It won’t do you any good.”