Maaike Timmerman continues to find it strange and unclear why Marco Borsato sent dirty messages to his victim, despite the fact that he has been acquitted of abuse. “Why are you doing that?”
Marco Borsato may have been acquitted in the abuse case against him, but that does not mean that he can go through life without a blemish again. His media comeback in the series of good friend Sergio Herman is seen as a soft landing, but, NPO star Maaike Timmerman asks: “Do you think that second step, an interview, will still happen?”
What to ask?
Albert Verlinde doesn’t know, he answers RTL Tonight. “I find it very complicated. The press has gone crazy in recent days. ‘Coward’, I even heard it said about Marco Borsato (by Angela de Jong, ed.). I then thought: what do you want to ask him? He has not been convicted, he has been acquitted.”
He continues: “I think it is almost impossible to be questioned much more than what he has experienced with agents and lawyers. What do you want to ask him? It is up to him to reorganize his life.”
Maaike critical
Presenter Humberto Tan thinks there is still plenty to ask. “You can of course think of questions for him: do you regret anything? Have you had contact with the victim? You can think of questions.”
Table guest Maaike Timmerman then: “Yes, or for example, sorry to interrupt you… You cannot force someone to give a critical interview, of course, that is up to him, but the only question I still have is about those apps that were sent to that young girl.”
“Don’t do that!”
Marco sent his complainant texts about self-gratification at a young age. Maaike: “That you think: hey, why did you send this to such a young girl? Really things that make you think: you wouldn’t send that to such a young girl?! That wasn’t dealt with very extensively in court.”
Fellow table guest Josine Droogendijk: “There are also things that do not result in a legal penalty, but are simply indecent. Whenever I listen to his music, I always think of that image and those apps. You have that in your head. That music is therefore no longer alive as before.”
Angela critical
Angela de Jong points out Pauw & De Wit in addition to the dirty apps, also buying lingerie together and the girl sitting on the bed while she was naked. “These are things that may not be punishable, but which have made it morally clear to me that I don’t have much sympathy for Marco Borsato.”
She continues: “If he wanted to win me back, it would help to just sit down opposite a sharp interviewer and answer all the questions that still remain after that lawsuit. But also to show some remorse that this is indeed not possible with a girl who is 15, 16 or 17.”
Coward
He is and remains a coward, Angela thinks. “If he then chooses for the second time – he did it before with Linda de Mol – to choose that cowardly path again… And he gets away with it, right?”
Dinner guest Mona Keijzer also wants a critical interview with Marco. “I would like to hear from him whether, looking back on those apps, for example, whether he would do that again,” she concludes.