Kamil B. (27) drove like crazy through Tilburg last October. He had pushed a man out of his car and fled with that car. The police chased him for miles across the city. It took eight police cars to finally trap K. on the square in front of the station. The court in Breda ruled on Monday that Kamil B. will receive eighteen months in prison, four of which are conditional.
In addition to this prison sentence, B. will lose his driver’s license for fifteen months and must immediately receive treatment for his drug addiction. The court does not consider it necessary to impose TBS with conditions, as demanded by the judiciary and advised by experts.
Kamil B. has been clean in prison for a while, but things were different on October 10 last year. He was on a lot of drugs and that had the opposite effect. The first report came before half past six in the morning. K. was throwing stones at cars on the Baron van Voorst tot Voorstweg near the Reeshof and Vossenberg industrial estate, close to the migrant hotel where he lived.
But it didn’t stop there. K. also smashed the window of a kitchen shop to take shelter and returned to the road a little later. He approached a motorist at the traffic light and shouted ‘drive’. Not much later, he unbuckled the man’s seat belt and pushed him out of his own car.
And then the crazy ride of about ten kilometers through the city began. He drove via the Ringbaan-West at at least 80 kilometers per hour through the Theresia and Besterd districts, above the Tilburg station. It was a miracle that no one was injured, because K. zigzagged across the road, missing cars and cyclists by a hair.
An officer who was chasing him was terrified when Kamil tried to push him off the road at Wilhelmina Park. On the Ringbaan-Oost, Kamil rammed a traffic light and an Arriva bus when it turned onto Spoorlaan. Several windows of the bus were shattered.
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The man pulled all kinds of signs out of the ground in front of Tilburg station and was eventually crushed by at least eight cars. The man was still so frantic that he had to be tasered to arrest him.
That night he had become completely psychotic due to drug use and experts therefore consider him less responsible. They recommended TBS with conditions, because he does not recognize his disorders and must stay away from drugs and alcohol.
But the court finds TBS too severe, especially because he only made a mistake one day and has a clean criminal record. B. has also never been treated for his problems before and the court does not see why treatment could not take place subject to special conditions.
This means that immediately after his prison sentence, he will be banned from drugs and alcohol, must cooperate with checks and participate in treatment for his drug and alcohol addiction. He must also move into assisted living.
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