The 53-year-old Bosschenaar, who was arrested because he may have left a man to his fate when he died while swimming, filmed the incident himself. There are no indications that a crime has been committed, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) reported on Tuesday.
“The filmed images show that the victim is in the water,” said a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service. “At a certain point, the suspect comes to his aid when it is clear that he is getting into trouble, but in our view that was too late. The question now is when exactly the suspect realized that.”
According to the spokesman, the man eventually pulled the victim out of the water. He would have given the video images to the police himself.
The victim, also a 53-year-old man from Den Bosch, died on Friday in the IJzeren Kind, a lake on Jan Heijmanslaan in his hometown. He was there with the suspect and got into trouble while swimming around 3:30 pm. The suspect filmed all this with his mobile phone.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, an autopsy on the victim’s body shows that he did not die due to an unwellness, such as a heart attack. “There are indications that are consistent with a drowning death.” Further investigation is required to determine whether the deceased swimmer was under the influence.
The suspect has since been released. The investigation into the incident continues.
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