A 22-year-old man was kicked hard during carnival in Alphen and beaten by a group of men. On images you can see how men in leopard bathrobe and SWAT team outfit do hard. Three of these fighters were in front of the court in Breda on Friday.
Everyone knows them: from those videos of fights that your stomach turns around. The video of the fight during carnival 2023 in Alphen is one of them. Various videos were shown in the courtroom. It showed how the young man was worked to the ground, getting big kicks and strokes against his head and on his body.
The victim suffers from that to this day. He had a heavy concussion and still cannot function normally. He sleeps poorly and his memory no longer works properly.
Poured beer
All this is due to a totally out of hand carnival evening on Tuesday, February 21, 2023. Dirk, Jip and Daan (now 22, 21 and 20) from Alphen were celebrating carnival with a group of friends in café den Heuvel on the Binckplein in Alphen .
The victim was there too. Together with his friends, he had a fight with a young man. This young man said that the group locked him up and that the later victim had poured beer over him.
Angry the young man drummed his friends, including Dirk, Jip and Daan, to get a story. The beer thrower had already been plotted there and the groups met each other outside.
Kick up like a free kick football
They immediately scolded and pushed. The images shown in the courtroom showed how Jip grabs the beer thrower in his leopard bathrobe and works to the ground and gives blows.
Then Dirk comes into the picture in his SWAT team outfit. He kicks the lying young man against his head as if he was taking a free kick at football. Then he grabs him and hits him three more times. Then he kicks again, also against the head.
The fight in Alphen was filmed by various people. Note, images can be shocking:
There was nothing left of the Bravoure of that evening, two years later. The three Alphenaren showed repentance and said it should never have happened.
All three suspects made their own role a bit smaller. Dirk had not hit the victim’s head, he said. Jip only wanted to pull the victim away when the fight arose.
Daan was not involved in the fight, he said. And apart from the explanation of a witness, there was actually no evidence against him. According to Daan, the witness confused him with another, because at least eight men wore a leopard bathrobe.
Fascinated by airport
The men were all sent home after the fight. Only two months later they were arrested. Remarkably, not at home, but at Schiphol when they returned from a holiday in Bali. They were taken out of the plane and fascinated over the airport.
The three young men and the victim regularly meet in the small village, especially because they play football at the same club. But contact has not been there in the past two years due to a contact ban.
The men apologized after the victim’s mother had told how heavy her son still has. He follows therapy and work is not going. He claimed compensation of almost 19,000 euros for all the suffered suffering.
Sixteen months in prison demanded
The public prosecutor saw Dirk as the big culprit and wants to punish him for an attempted manslaughter. He is a big, strong guy who raged enormously in his striking SWAT team outfit. As far as she is concerned, he goes in prison for sixteen months.
Jip had a smaller role in the abuse, the officer thought. Against him, she demanded a 150 -hour community service and she demanded that for Daan. Three people have designated him as a co -perpetrator. In addition to cell or community service, the three men should also get a contact ban with the victim.
The lawyers of the three Alphenaren made the role of men a lot smaller. Daan should get acquittal and Jip really didn’t have such a big role, argued their lawyer.
Dirk’s counsel also asked for his client’s acquittal. He does not see what others see in the images and continues to deny that he has hit the victim on his head. And he certainly did not have the plan to rob the victim of life.
The court will rule on this case on 7 February.