“We’re going to expose you as a rapist!”

Özcan Akyol went to the police because of strange emails. They threatened to expose him as a rapist. “We are going to expose you as a rapist, as an assailant!”

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Johan Derksen tells at the table at Today Inside that it is very easy these days to accuse someone unfounded of transgressive behaviour. “The situation is like this, Eus: if you hate someone, if you play the wrong tone and I file a complaint, a message comes up ‘excessive behaviour’.”

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Judgments are then made very quickly, says Johan. “Then people immediately think that you touched something. They can really screw you over now. That happens. At Volt it got out of hand, here it got out of hand (chairman of the police union, ed.). It is very unjust the way people are being judged now.”

Özcan then picks up on his story. “In fact, it is also really abused. I received an anonymous email two weeks ago or so. That was from so-called concerned women who said, ‘We’re going to expose you as a rapist, as a molester. We’re going to your boss, so respond to this email. We are going to file a report anyway.’”

Migration background

It was very suspicious, he says. “I noticed everything and how it was written: this is not right, this is not from a woman. You can see that from how they phrased it and stuff. It was very bad language, so I think it was actually a man from a migrant background. Anyway, I didn’t respond, but another email came a week later.”

What was in it? “From: ‘We are going to respond now, otherwise we will go to your employers.’ I thought: this is some kind of extortion, so I filed a report.”

Law enforcement

The police helped Özcan well, says the program maker. “The police took it very seriously, because they also read: this is not correct, this is clearly a criminal.”

“It was sent anonymously via Protonmail or something, that is encrypted mailing. They sued that company but they couldn’t find who the sender was because it was VPN. Another means has been tried to track down those people, but it doesn’t work.”

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