Tim Verschuren (29) from Eindhoven has a broken nose and twelve stitches in his face after a night out. He doesn’t remember much about the evening in question. He was found unconscious on the ground in a pool of water. “I want to know what happened,” he says.
It was the last weekend of October. Early in the morning at four o’clock in the night from Saturday to Sunday, Tim sat on a bench at the Stratumseind nightlife street in Eindhoven. Alone, because his friends had to go in a different direction. “I wanted to order an Uber. I always sit there on the bench at the church until the Uber comes.”
Tim saw four boys and two girls. “A girl was pushed by one of those boys. She wanted to go back to the boy because she was pushed.” Tim stood up and walked over. “I said something about it. It was addressed to the girl, not the boy. And from that moment on it is completely black.”
“The first thing I know is that they’re pushing me through a scan there.”
Tim lay unconscious on the floor. “Two girls found me and called the police. I was picked up by an ambulance and taken to the hospital. The first thing I remember is being pushed through a scan there.”
It took quite a bit of work in the hospital to patch Tim up. “I had wounds all over my face. Also on the top and back of my head. Twelve stitches in my face. Parts have also been glued. ”
But he has no idea what exactly happened. Although he tries to reconstruct it based on his injuries. “From my injuries it appears I was knocked down from behind. And they kicked me in the head a few times. That probably stretched the muscles in my neck. That bothered me a lot.”
“I hope someone saw something.”
Tim later filed a report. The police say that a serious assault took place, but that there are few leads for an investigation. “There are no witnesses and no camera footage. Nothing. I do not know who it is. I don’t know who attacked me. I didn’t see anyone standing in front of me. I never stood in front of that boy either.”
Five more stitches need to be removed. “I hope someone saw something. I want to know how it happened.”
He just keeps going out. “I had a good night out, but this time it didn’t end well. It helps that I don’t know what happened. I don’t really have anything holding me back. I’m pretty down to earth about it. I think that’s because I don’t remember anything.”
Tim also took a photo of himself in the hospital. Then he looked even more serious:
