She is in Shock, about what happened to her last weekend in her house on Obrechtlaan in Assen. And anxious. The 25-year-old Assense has no idea who is behind ‘De Bom’ that was attached to her letterbox last weekend and caused a huge havoc.
“I don’t wish this my worst enemy. You had to know what you are doing to someone with this. This is so traumatizing.”
The duped resident describes the explosive, according to the police belonging to the category heavy fireworks, himself as ‘a bomb’. “The explosion was huge, and it gave so much pressure, everything vibrated, the windows, window sills, the air ducts. Terrible.”
The Assense was in bed at the top, when she was brought from her sleep cruel in the night from Saturday to Sunday. “Immediately everything was full of smoke. The bedroom, the hall, and the living room. I grabbed a blanket of bed, which wrapped around me, ran down, walked right through all the glass in the hallway, to save both my cats. The two, Luna and Garrie, they really mean everything for me.”
Despite the enormous havoc, the woman refuses to leave her house with glass fragments, burns and smoke development. Even though the police and fire brigade insisted on it, for her own safety. “And even though it was full of smoke, I didn’t really want to leave my house and stay with my cats. I didn’t want to leave it in the chaos.”
Eventually she tacked, got out with her blanket, and was taken care of in the fire truck to finally dress. The cats were also secured. A day and a half after the fierce explosion, she is shivering at the dining table.
Not only because of all the stress and fear, but also because of the trip in the house. Because through crevasses in the wooden bulkheads of the boarded front, the autumn wind pulls through the house. And there are also tears from time and still, because she is intensely sad, angry and disappointed. “I am put away in the neighborhood as an instigator, by the stories they tell about me, but I am a victim. They forget that.”
She points out that she is a young single woman who also happens to this. A woman who can use Buren’s support well, but according to her it is seriously lacking. “I have a big heart, I am very social towards people, I also want to help people myself. I miss that here in the street, I have never felt so alone and lonely. There has been no one at my door asking if I need help.”
It hurts her that neighbors – “who don’t know me at all” – negative stories about her around her. “About that I would be too noisy and that all kinds of young people come to the street since I came to live here. And then they also call that they are not waiting for more of these kinds of jokes. Well, I don’t.”
The Assense lived on Obrechtlaan for a year and felt safe there, until the huge bang last weekend. She is now opposed to sleep in this ‘affected place’. But she can’t go anywhere else with her cats, she says. Not to friends or family.
At the time, she was ‘an urgent case’ and was therefore assigned the spacious single -family home in the Composersbuurt from home landlord Actium. “I urgently had to have a house in Assen, after I had lived in Appelscha for a while. But there I had to leave after sad circumstances. I had to live near my family.”
She admits that her new relationship has recently been broken again. Also that her ex since then caused problems. “My front door kicked in on August 28. And yes, he did. The police immediately arrested him for that at the time, he also admitted it.”
He denies that he would now also be behind this explosion. And the Assense believes that. “I’m sure he would never go that far. I dare to put my hands in the fire for that.”
The young woman also has no idea who is behind the attack with the heavy explosive. She doubts whether it was meant for her, and whether the wrong house may have been caught. “The police also take into account that it might be the wrong location, a mistake.”
The Assense hopes that the police will take the perpetrator soon, although she also carefully keeps in mind that the instigator may never be found. “No DNA has been found, and there is also nothing to be seen on the image of doorbell videos in the area. So there are few starting points.”
She understands that the neighborhood is afraid after the fierce event of this weekend. “But they also have to move in me. What it all does to me. Every night as soon as it gets dark, I’m scared. And I have never felt as lonely as now.”