Overview
- The appeal of Fouad L. began this week in Rotterdam with courtroom hearings on November 12 and 13 that revisited the September 28, 2023 triple homicide for which he was convicted and sentenced to life.
- New evaluations presented in the appeal conclude his assessed risk of future violence is higher than earlier reports and recommend placement under tbs with close forensic custody on a secure psychiatric prison ward.
- Both the defence and the Public Prosecution have appealed the original life sentence while agreeing treatment must play a role, but they differ on order: the defence presses for treatment-first or a reduced term and the OM wants a long prison term before tbs.
- In court L. showed no remorse, described a compulsion he calls 'de partitie' and told judges he 'feels nothing' about the killings, details that experts cited when describing persistent violent impulses during assessments.
- The court will hear the prosecution’s sentence demand on November 23 and aims to deliver judgment on December 16, after which any tbs order would be reviewed by judges about every two years and could keep him in secure care for many years.