According to the police, the suspect is a 36-year-old man from Blaricum. It would be a confused man who Blaricum, although the police cannot confirm that. There are, however, several messages in the neighborhood that the man has been causing problems in the village for some time. There is talk of one ‘Ticking time bomb’for which a warning must be made.
The fright at Restaurant Bistrot Chapeau is in the right place, says the restaurant On social media. “We are all very shocked,” it sounds. The restaurant says it is angry because they later heard that the attacker is a frequent offender. “Because, what now is he coming back? We are scared, our employees and guests too.”
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Mayor Barbara de Reijke visited the Blaricum restaurant yesterday to support the owners and the employees. On social media she praises the bystanders who could hold the man until the police arrived.
She mentions Sunday’s incident an ‘incident with an enormous impact in such a small and close -knit community as Blaricum’ and she also says that people are very worried and feel unsafe.
From the statement of the mayor it indeed seems that the attacker was a confused man. “What we see in general at cases that lie at the interface of care and safety is that criminal law does not always offer the solution for the longer term, which is desired for public order and safety. A forced care recording is also not always a possibility, because this requires sufficient legal substantiation. I want to indicate that we do everything we can do,” writes the mayor.
She speaks of a ‘broad social problem’, but because of the privacy she cannot say much about this specific case.
The local police officer went to the Blaercom community center yesterday morning to talk to local residents and entrepreneurs about the incident. The mayor calls on Blaricummers to continue to report unsafe situations and to report when there are criminal offenses.