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Information from the NOS•nowadays, 06:00
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He would act in revenge and deliberately run above a motorcycle cop with his truck. Currently the lawsuit is submitted in opposition to the truck driver who killed the policeman Arno de Korte final year.
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It transpired when the bike law enforcement officer needed to test out Melissant’s truck driver Willem M. De Korte was dragged for hundreds of meters.
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The prosecutor believes that Willem M. intentionally stumbled upon the motorbike law enforcement officer. Witnesses heard how M. gasped soon after receiving a closing signal. “They saw that he created no try to swerve, he hit the motorcyclist head-on and then continued on,” the prosecutor beforehand pointed out.
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According to the prosecutor, M. experienced cherished for a prolonged time grudge from the law enforcement, who accused of pushing him about and in excess of again. He is said to have mentioned he would eliminate a law enforcement officer at the following test.
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Attack on the law enforcement
“In our feeling, this is an assault on the police,” states Joke de Korte, Arno’s mother. She is, like the prosecutor, convinced of the murder. “She’s been arranging It for a lengthy time.” M.’s attorney denies it and speaks of a deadly accident.
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Mother Joke is even now battling with inner thoughts of anger and helplessness a lot more than a year following the accident. “Since she currently had more on her conscience,” she says.
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Willem M. (sometimes also referred to as Edwin) had been acknowledged to the law enforcement for years as a threat on the street. Involving 2015 and 2021 he was concerned in numerous major incidents. Previously he had strike a police officer, who as a result lost an arm. Willem M. then acquired neighborhood service.
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M. also killed a bicycle owner crossing the highway, for which he was not prosecuted. Checks showed his truck was invariably overloaded. The fines failed to stop him, he explained.
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indigestible
Inspite of all the incidents, there was no coordinated strategy from the truck driver. In accordance to Investigate the law enforcement, the Prosecutor’s Workplace and the Human Setting and Transport Inspectorate must have carried out far more to quit it. Police suspicions that Willem M. was mentally unable to push a truck did not lead to the confiscation of his driver’s license by the CBR.
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He stings De Korte’s kin. Mom Joke defines indigestible that Willem M. can keep on driving despite the threat he posed. “Each time he was permitted to go back again to the road.”
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Actions
Due to the fact then the police have taken measures, on the guidance of the commission of inquiry. All officers now know where by to report dangerous driving behavior by drivers and following each and every incident there is a consultation with the CBR. The vans are structurally checked for overload. The law enforcement also continue to keep an eye on how frequently a driver would make a blunder and if correct action is taken in opposition to it.
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De Korte’s household is pleased with these advancements, but nevertheless believes that his dying could have been averted if it experienced been done earlier. Sister-in-law Pascal: “Now there are modifications, but it can be just far too late.”
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At the funeral of the bike policeman, there was a 4-kilometer tribute from his colleagues:
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Kilometers of honorary farmyard for the Rotterdam bike agent
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Right now the case relating to the loss of life of Arno de Korte will be dealt with on the deserves and the prosecutor will situation a sentence against Willem M., who will be present for the initially time in courtroom.
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Mother Joke de Korte is also talking today. She is invariably seated in the hallway with a picture of her kid in her lap. “For anyone to see. Arno was a very good particular person, operating for some others.”
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