The Public Prosecution Service deliberately waited with the arrest of the then Ajax player Quincy Promes. This because of a group match of Ajax in the Champions League. This is apparent from a Wob request from news hour about the case.
Promes became in December 2020 arrested for stabbing his cousin. That stabbing had already happened six months before occurred† Promes was already arrested a few days after the arrest released†
Account taken
Just before his arrest, he was still able to play the match with Ajax. “This has been taken into account, but also the seriousness of the fact and the time lapse between the date of committing and the report,” the Public Prosecution Service wrote in an internal communication plan. That plan was intended in case questions came from journalists.
The Public Prosecution Service says in a reaction told Nieuwsuur that it happens more often that ‘the agenda of the person to be arrested’ is taken into account in the event of arrests in the act. The judiciary also did not consider it necessary to detain him for more than two days.
Professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law Sven Brinkhoff tells the program that he finds it surprising that Promes was still allowed to play with Ajax. “The offenses are serious enough to deal with them expeditiously and in accordance with the rules of the criminal process.” In addition, Promes was allowed to join the Dutch national team in the summer of 2021. “The European Championship and the status of this suspect as an Orange player has really made the criminal process different than usual,” says Brinkhoff.
Smuggle synthetic drugs
Sources around the investigation tell the program that, in addition to the stabbing and drug trafficking, Promes is now also suspected of smuggling synthetic drugs to Australia and domestic violence. Due to the drug trafficking investigation, he was already bugged† It was previously revealed that he spoke about the stabbing in those tapped telephone conversations.
Promes now lives in Russia, after he was sold by Ajax in February 2021 to Spartak Moscow† The trial about the stabbing was supposed to take place at the end of March of this year, but that case has been postponed due to illness of one of the participants. This week he was able to play one more match with Spartak Moscow.