Overview
- The court in The Hague found there was insufficient evidence that the defendant planned a punishable attack on Princess Amalia and therefore acquitted him.
- Psychiatric examiners concluded the man was in a psychosis at the time of the events and fully not criminally responsible, a finding that shaped the court’s decision.
- Police discovered two axes with carved words and a note referencing 'Bloedbad400' and Amalia in a hotel room after a night porter reported threatening language, prompting the January arrest.
- The Public Prosecution Service had sought TBS, a Dutch measure for compulsory psychiatric treatment, and the suspect was released from pretrial detention when judges found no grounds to keep him held.
- Under Dutch law a finding of 'ontoerekeningsvatbaarheid' means psychiatric disorder can remove criminal liability and shifts possible responses from punishment to psychiatric care and monitoring.