Overview

• The Public Prosecution Service asked for 14 years in prison plus TBS with compulsory treatment for 57-year-old Hans H., arguing he planned the fatal stabbing of his ex-partner Tonnie in Hardenberg.
• Prosecutors cited preparations including a rental car, two sharp knives and a non-traceable phone, as well as reports that he waited near her workplace; the defense argued for manslaughter and TBS with conditions.
• Shortly before she was killed, Tonnie told police she was terrified and reported that Hans H. violated contact and house bans; he acknowledged the stabbing in court but claimed memory gaps.
• Utrecht police challenged Geert Wilders’ account of a garbage collector’s assault, describing it as a traffic dispute with a single blow and saying there was no large group of intervening Moroccans.
• In separate cases, Amsterdam police released identifiable images in an attempted rape investigation, a cyclist died after a train collision near Tynaarlo, and Groningen officers arrested a suspect with a loaded revolver during a street altercation.