Coffeeshop Caza at the Gasthuisring in Tilburg will not open for the time being. The court in Breda determined on Tuesday that the case will remain closed because new attacks cannot be excluded. The owner of the coffee shop also does not get his catering license back. His lawyer Bisar Cicek speaks of an extremely frustrating issue.
The lawyer wanted to undo the closure through the court. According to Cicek, his client cannot be blamed and does everything he can to prevent attacks and to guarantee safety for the neighborhood. He also received support from and the municipality and the court, but as long as attacks were stuck in the air, it is irresponsible to reopen the case, the judge ruled.
In three years there have been at least ten attacks at Caza. At the beginning of November last year, the coffee shop was allowed to open its doors again, after it had been locked due to another attack. At the beginning of this year it was hit again and Mayor Theo Weterings made it again to closure.
The frustration of Cicek is in various things. His client ensures surveillance, but attacks are still being committed. That is why the lawyer came up with other options, such as closing the sidewalk and the cycle path for the case, placing extra cameras or a mobile police station. At the municipality, however, he received zero on the Kestest.
“Where there is a will, is a way and I miss it.”
Cicek: “The mayor says that my client is not the culprit in this, but I miss the will to think along with him about a solution. No police can be used because of a shortage of capacity, is said. But that has to do with priority? We would love to work with the mayor, but where a will is a way.”
“We continue to proceed. There is another objection procedure at the municipality. Depending on the decision of the mayor, we can again object to the court. But the longer it takes, the greater the chance that my client will go bankrupt.”
“It is only the running boys who come to court.”
Cicek and his client are struggling with another frustration: “Why are the men behind those attacks not arrested? It is only the running boys who come to court.”
Perhaps more will soon be clear about who has planned one of those attacks. Then the court in Breda examines the most recent attack, that of January 4. Then around three o’clock in the morning an explosive was thrown towards the case, while two security guards were at the door. For this, three suspects (from 18, 19 and 25) were arrested, who will be in court next Thursday. They are still stuck.
One of the attacks, that of March 2024, has already been ‘resolved’. Two teenagers received a prison sentence in February this year and one of them on top of it, because they had shot the coffee shop. The alleged client was also sentenced to prison.
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