Overview
- The Public Prosecution Service said Wednesday it will prosecute him for the December 5 hostage-taking at PI Vught’s psychiatric unit, where staff were held and threatened with a knife.
- A court expert concluded he is not fully criminally unaccountable, and prosecutors say he understood his actions were crimes.
- Prosecutors say he used the incident to try to force a transfer to another facility while he was in custody.
- He has waited more than a year for a place in a tbs clinic, and a judge in February rejected his lawyers’ attempt to speed that admission.
- The OM frames the case as a signal that violence against detention staff will not be tolerated, noting victims can address the court and seek damages, and a hearing date has not been set.