The Public Prosecution Service has demanded a six-month prison sentence, three of which were conditional, against a 35-year-old man from Emmen. He was prosecuted for thirteen criminal offenses that played between 2020 and 2023: from the theft of cans of Energydrink attempted manslaughter.
The man said he was innocent about this last fact. He would have visited acquaintances in Assen that evening on November 29, 2022. There, the hostess’s ex-partner would have behaved intrusive to him, the suspect said. When he thought the man to leave, it would have arrived at a physical confrontation. The man would have drawn a kitchen knife. The suspect said he had weathered himself and tried to take the knife. His rival would have injured himself, the suspect said.
The man was taken to the hospital. Among other things, he rose cuts on his lip, jaw and hand and a stab or cut or cut in his pubic area. The Emmenaar then fled for the police towards a campsite in Drouwen, where he then lived with his girlfriend at the time. He would have told her that a man would have drawn a knife that he had taken away and that he would then have stabbed the man.
According to the suspect, he did not consciously put the man injured. “That he was injured is because of his own actions.”
The OM was largely included in the story of the Emmenaar. “I can’t properly refute that there has been no emergency weather situation,” said the public prosecutor. Several witnesses saw that the victim had a knife in his hand. She decided to dismiss the Emmenaar of legal proceedings on this point, because it was possible that he tried to defend himself against the attack of his rival.
The victim’s lawyer did not agree. According to him, the suspect spoke several times in telephone messages and speech memos that he had put his client, not that he should have defend himself or was attacked. He also does not fit the injury to this. “The injury at the pubic area looks like targeted stitches.”
The man was also continued for theft of Energydrink, speakers, a scooter and a bicycle. There were also several abuses of his ex-girlfriend, resistance in the event of arrest and two vandalism on the indictment. This would have happened, among other things, when he was arrested by the police after the stab incident and hit a window at the police station.
The man was already in possession of a large criminal record, but said he has recently become calmer. “I have a short fuse, that’s the nature of the animal.” The officer told him that if “he wants to make something of his life” would have to take steps.
According to the lawyer, the man has had a tough life and the court should take that context into account. According to her, her client has his life better and better and would be unfavorable if he had to go into the cell. She argued for a completely conditional prison sentence or in combination with community service.
The court ruled on October 9.