Ronald Molendijk finds it extremely unbelievable that Thijs Römer suddenly comes up with excuses two weeks after his conviction. “That liar fucks everywhere!”
How shocked Thijs Römer must have been: two weeks ago he was simply sentenced to a month in prison for his raunchy sexual offenses against three underage girls. The actor announced yesterday that he would appeal and suddenly went through the dust in his statement: “I am very sorry.”
Really sorry?
Eh, Thijs has shown no remorse during the hour-long session, but now that he has been convicted and has to go to jail, is he suddenly sorry? Or is this just a tactic leading up to his appeal? It was discussed in the studio last night Show news on SBS 6.
According to Bram Moszkowicz, Thijs would do well during his appeal to blame someone else for the earlier failure to apologize. “Then he can say, probably truthfully, ‘I had followed advice that I probably shouldn’t have followed about what I was going to declare at the hearing.’”
‘N**t around!’
Ronald Molendijk believes that Thijs’s ‘repentance’ really comes much too late. “Those judges also have newspapers and the internet, so they also read that he marries people and then sleeps with the bride and that he s**ts around on all sides. They also think: that man never speaks the truth,” he says.
The music connoisseur points here to the affair that Thijs had with his good friend’s lover, while he had married those two together. “If he is before the judge, I think it will start with: ‘Do you want to speak the truth?’”
No truth
Bram states that Thijs does not have to speak the truth at all. “Well, he doesn’t have to be a suspect. You don’t have to, no.”
Ronald: “So not in the second court case either?”
Bram: “No, a suspect in the Netherlands does not have to tell the truth. Of course, judges are people too and read newspapers, but the higher judges must give him another chance as a suspect. If he makes a different statement there honestly and truthfully and well-founded, then that can work to his advantage.”
Liar
Ronald: “Now you say: ‘Truthfully’, but that is not relevant at all, is it?”
Bram: “To be honest. If you assume that everyone is lying…”
Ronald: “Well, I assume that Thijs Römer is lying.”
Bram believes that Thijs is sincere and was guided by bad advice: “I assume that if he is well advised, he will tell the truth in appeal, yes.”
‘Very stupid’
John van den Heuvel has in RTL Boulevard said that he does not rule out a higher sentence for Thijs, but now also sees those excuses passing by: “If that becomes his procedural attitude on appeal, it may just be that judges show some compassion and go for a lower sentence. ”
According to Johan Derksen, a pr-technical appeal is ‘the stupidest thing’ Thijs can do and his Today Inside table guest Özcan Akyol calls the actor ‘cut up’. Finally, Evert Santegoeds in Shownieuws: “In any case, it will not make much difference to his career, because it is already ruined anyway.”