Adil A. from Oosterhout, one of the four suspects in the matter of the explosion at the wheat camp in The Hague, only wanted to go along to steal valuables, but eventually abandoned it. He says that in a statement. According to him, there is evidence that he has never been present at the explosion and he states that the Public Prosecution Service (OM) no longer suspects him.
In the statement he has drawn up and was provided by his lawyer Dirk Stoof, A. states that it has been proven that he was in the pub at the time of the explosion. The enormous explosion at the wheat camp in the Mariahoeve district of The Hague had six dead, several injured and large material damage. Adil A. says that the ‘client’ of the fire at wheat camp wants to ‘destroy his life’.
With that he refers to a 33-year-old man from Rotterdam who, according to the OM, counts as a brain behind the devastating explosion. He would have had a relationship that was broken, with the owner of the bridal fashion store where the explosion was.
“My only involvement in this drama is that I was asked to go along but I have failed,” writes A. The only reason he wanted to go, he says, “is because there is 1.5 to 2 Ton euro in value would be in the building. But he did not want something to be stolen but only arson, “said A. about the 33-year-old suspect from Rotterdam.
‘Rol distribution is different’
That A. “only wanted to pay 1500 euros for that was reason enough for me not to come along,” he says. The 33-year-old lawyer, Gerard Spong, announced last month that his client denies that he is the brain behind the events. He “is not the ‘auctor intellectualis’. The division of roles is a bit different. He has a lot of regrets,” said Spong then.
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The Public Prosecution Service reported that the suspected assessment should have already taken place on December 1. Two Roosendaal suspects, cousins of the 33-year-old suspect, were then arrested in a van with heavy fireworks and jerry cans of gas. A. also states then to have been in the pub and says that witnesses and camera images are proof of this.
On March 14, a first preparatory session will take place in the case at the court in The Hague.