The Public Prosecution Service has demanded 302 days of juvenile detention and youth TBS against a 20-year-old man from Emmen. The man stabbed a former friend in the arm on May 31 last year. The boy (17 years old at the time) suffered a heavily bleeding stab wound and had to be taken to hospital.
The prosecutor said it was an attempted murder. It was close to whether the victim had been stabbed in the upper body or in a blood vessel, according to the prosecutor. The Emmen has confessed to stabbing. He turned himself in to the police station a day later. The man has been in custody ever since.
Former friends
The man and his former boyfriend had been frazzled a few years ago after an earlier quarrel. They did not see each other for a long time and met again on May 30 in Emmen. Then they got into an argument again, after which the victim said he was also stabbed by the Emmen, but in his leg.
The next day, the two met again at the skating rink on Raadhuisplein. They argued again. When the 17-year-old boy wanted to hit the suspect, he grabbed a knife and lunged. The man said he had been drinking and smoking and his vision was blurred. The risk of more serious injuries was therefore high, the officer said.
The man ran away after the stabbing. He threw the knife into the water somewhere. The police have not found it. In court, he told me that the blade was about four inches long. He said he deeply regretted the violence.
Disorder and Addiction
Because research by a psychiatrist and psychologist shows that the Emmenaar has a developmental disorder from his childhood in Somalia, he is still young and because he has addiction problems, the experts advise youth tbs. The officer thinks that’s right. For the same reason, she also wants juvenile detention and not a prison sentence in an adult prison.
The man and his lawyer think the latter is crazy, because he has now been held in a ‘normal’ prison for nine and a half months. The man does want help, but not behind closed doors in a clinic. He wants help finding accommodation and said in court that he could arrange training and work himself.
The young Emmenaar has been convicted more often for violent crimes in the past five years. Because of his disorder, the experts fear that without treatment, things will go wrong with the man again. The officer also thinks there is a good chance that he will repeat himself.
The court will rule on March 29.