Two men from Oss, against whom a fourteen-year prison sentence was demanded earlier this week, are free. According to the Public Prosecution Service, they should be severely punished because they were involved in the murder of 23-year-old Mo Ahmed in April 2022 in his hometown of Oss. But the chamber at the court in Den Bosch has now determined after ‘deliberations that there is reason to release them from their pre-trial detention.’ This means that they can leave the prison.
A spokesperson for the court cannot explain what exactly was the deciding factor. If suspects are released after such a heavy sentence before the court issues a verdict, this could mean two things. Or that they are acquitted or that the final sentence is not heavier than pre-trial detention. The court in Den Bosch will give its ruling on February 13.
One of the two released suspects is Egemin I., the 25-year-old brother of Efehan I., the man who, according to justice, initiated the murder. The other man who was allowed to leave the cell is Anass B. (28). So they were sentenced to fourteen years in prison. If it were up to the Public Prosecution Service, their fellow citizens Efehan I. and Semih Z. would have to spend twenty years in prison. Z. has been missing since the murder in broad daylight at the Leeuwerikhof in Oss.
Drug gang errand boy
Mo was the right-hand man and errand boy of a drug gang. “Two hours before his death, Mo punched one of the suspects in the face. What he could not have imagined was that this had determined his fate.” This is how the public prosecutor started her indictment on Tuesday. According to her, all four men played an important role in Mo’s death.
The victim was hit by five bullets in a parking lot and fatally struck in the head and back. His father witnessed it, sitting on the back of his son’s scooter. The prosecutor: “His father sees how his son gets another shot in the head, when he is actually already lying lifeless on the ground. A liquidation shot. A purely contemptuous shot, which radiates coolness.”
Investigations soon made it clear that Mo had been attacked by the four young men. A few hours before the shooting incident, there was a confrontation between Efehan and Mo, during which the later victim hit his rival in the face with the flat of his hand. Efehan was on ‘territory’ of Mo’s gang. It would have been this tap that directly led to the later shots.
The police immediately took action: