Bart Swier, Ali B’s lawyer, thinks that Marco Borsato will be acquitted for indecency with an underage girl. “It’s a lot circumstantial“said the rapper’s criminal lawyer.
Marco Borsato is suspected of having committed fornication with an underage girl, although there is no such offense smoking gun. The Public Prosecution Service has not provided any compelling evidence and therefore many people have doubts, especially because the girl’s mother has been fired as the chairman of his fan club and may be out for revenge.
Circumstantial
Lawyer Bart Swier, who represents Marco’s former Voice colleague Ali B, has a gloomy outlook for the Public Prosecution Service. “There is not much. I immediately reveal that it is my analysis that he is acquitted, Marco Borsato. The difficult thing about the indictment, I think, is that it is not clearly stated. It is very much circumstantial (indirect evidence, ed.),” he says at BNR.
And that recorded conversation with Marco? “Well, look, if he openly admits that he did indeed grab the girl between her legs, that he rubbed her nipples, etcetera, etcetera, then you have a perfect confession, but he doesn’t do that.”
Rarely weak
Marco should have denied it very loudly in that secretly recorded conversation with the mother in question, the Public Prosecution Service believes. “The argument of the Public Prosecution Service that he does not deny it and that it is therefore a confession, yes, that is a rare weak argument of course,” says Bart.
How does he feel about the singer’s defense? “To be honest, I missed the legal interpretation in their plea, but simply: the fact that those diaries can never be supporting evidence, I did miss that in their plea, while that is a legally rock-solid position for something that is presented by the Public Prosecution Service as supporting evidence.”
Embraced and hugged
Bart thinks Marco will recover quickly. “I think that if this becomes a reasoned acquittal, he will really be embraced and embraced by the public again, because then there is also someone who has been wrongly canceled for four or five years.”
Fallen criminal lawyer Bram Moszkowicz thinks Bart is going wrong. He says at the desk Show news: “I know that in October of this year the same court ruled in a fornication case that a diary can be supporting evidence. The same court said: ‘If there is other supporting evidence, then a diary can also be supporting evidence.’”
Edge evidence
That is exactly the situation that occurs with Marco, according to Bram. “Because you have the texts, you have the bag conversation, you have the girl’s statement, you have the diary and some peripheral evidence.”
He concludes: “If the court wants, they can convict. Such an app in which he gives that girl advice on how to do a few things – I’ll keep it polite – can play a very important role in the conviction. (…) My legal opinion is that if the court wanted to do so, they would have legal and convincing evidence.”
The verdict is expected on December 4.