De Telegraaf managed to bring that the man, who killed his then partner with forty knife stabs in the presence of a child, is currently working in a GGZ clinic. At the time, the man was severely punished with six years in prison and TBS. The murder was horrible, with dozens of knife stabs committed from jealous motifs, he killed his girlfriend. In the meantime, the man has returned to society, with a care job for which he has received a declaration of behavior (VOG). According to GGNet, he is “an example of successful reintegration.” But in political The Hague the eyebrows are rising.
Explanation of the State Secretary needed
VVD MP Ingrid Michon calls it “incredible” that this man came through the screening. Michon asks parliamentary questions and wants the State Secretary for Justice and Security to immediately investigate how this VOG was issued.
Marieke Wijen-Nass of the BBB is also furious. According to her, it is ‘socially irresponsible’ that someone with an extremely speech now works in a place where trust and safety must be paramount. “Anyone who has ended a life in this way should never again work with people who need protection,” she says. “It is impossible that someone responsible for such a horrible act, who was also committed in the presence of a child, is admitted to a function in healthcare.”
Wijen-Nass points out that a similar application was rejected in 2022, in the name of public safety. “Why is that different now? What has changed?” She announces that she will feel firmly tested by the State Secretary.
Faith Bruyning (NSC): ‘Painful signal to society’
And that also applies to NSC MP Faith Bruyning. The Member of Parliament is shocked by the message and calls it painful. “This raises the necessary questions. How do you explain this to the relatives and to society?” Although her party recovery is important in the rule of law, she makes substantial comments about the risk assessment. “It is precisely in cases of femicide, one of the most serious forms of structural violence against women, you must be extremely vigilant.”
Bruyning argues for clear frameworks when awarding a VOG in these types of heavy things. “A safe society must be the starting point. No lack of clarity may exist,” explains Bruyning.
After years of prison and TBS Baan in Zorgliniek, murderer gets: “How can someone work with vulnerable people?”
Ingrid Coenradie, former State Secretary of Justice and Security (PVV) and now on the Ja21 electoral list, finds it incomprehensible that someone convicted of a lifelict gets a VOG: “Everyone deserves a second chance, but after murder? If you see how often a VOG was being decided for much small state secretaris, I had an unpredictary secretary, I had an unpredictary secretary. Finding this decision?
In a response, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice and Security said that he would not respond specifically to ‘individual cases. “Every VOG application is a unique case. Screening authority Justis assesses the VOG applications. If there are judicial data about the applicant, Justis or the criminal offenses are an obstacle to the purpose for which the VOG has been requested. In addition, Justis makes a trade-off of the interests of the applicant on the other hand, and the judiciary and the defendant and the justice and the justified one and the defendant.