Thijs Römer does not want to go to prison for a month and is therefore appealing in the abuse case against him. It causes disbelief: “He wants the last drop of the poison cup.”
In jail for a month? Thijs Römer absolutely does not like it. The actor has been convicted of online abuse of three underage girls, but thinks he has not done so much wrong and states that Amsterdammers like him are just raised more freely. And more importantly, that he helped those girls as a kind of counselor.
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Apparently Thijs still has the idea that he should not be punished for what he did to those girls, because he goes into appeal. Annoying for the victims, including Nena Kruizenga, because they still cannot end this misery because of this.
Juice queen Yvonne Coldeweijer thinks it’s bizarre. “Thijs shows that he still thinks he has done nothing wrong. 🤦 ♀️ He also runs the risk that his sentence will be higher. Because that can of course also be done in an appeal. The chance that he will receive a lower sentence than he already received, I estimate very low.”
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Ron Vergouwen, the media connoisseur of NPO Radio 1, is surprised. “Yeah, nice to keep that attention on you!”
Gossip Talk presenter Jan Roos thinks it is also very inconvenient from a PR point of view. “Ah, Thijs also wants the last drop of the poison cup.”
RTL Boulevard star Rob Goossens short but sweet: “🤦🏻♂️.”
Media spectacle
Telegraaf presenter Wilson Boldewijn thinks it’s stupid. “Thijs Römer is going to appeal. Fortunately, that is allowed in this democracy. But wonder if it’s useful. Another whole media spectacle and will the Court be more lenient? I don’t think so, but the ball is round. Perhaps a different attitude to the process would help?”
And Sébas Dijkstra, who assists the victims of The Voice: “The advantage of this is that the justices of the court can impose a higher sentence on the actor.”
What does Thijs say?
In his own words, Thijs recognizes himself too little ‘in the picture that emerges from the verdict’. “I cannot and do not want to justify what happened,” he says The Telegraph. “I made mistakes in the online contact at the time. I fully realize that. I feel terrible that they have suffered because of this and I am very sorry.”
He continues: “The appeal is not intended to detract from that suffering. I would have liked to accept the verdict of the judge, but I do not recognize myself enough in the picture that emerges from the verdict.”