15 dec 2023 om 23:33
In an appeal, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) has demanded ten years in prison against the suspect of manslaughter of a parcel deliverer in the Hoogvliet district of Rotterdam. That is two years more than the prison sentence he received last year.
In February last year, suspect Yassin El B. and the 42-year-old parcel deliverer from Rotterdam got into an argument about a package. The PostNL delivery person wanted to deliver it to El B., but the doorbell did not work due to a power failure. The suspect was waiting for the package and followed the delivery person.
Because the package had already been deregistered in the system, the delivery person did not want to hand it over to the suspect. A fight then broke out. The delivery man fell to the ground when the suspect gave him a kickboxing kick in the neck. He suffered a skull fracture and died a few days later.
The court sentenced El B. to eight years in prison last year for serious assault with fatal consequences. The Public Prosecution Service had then demanded six years, but the court found that too little due to the great suffering of the victim’s family. He was the father of two young children.
The Public Prosecution Service believes that El B, as a “trained kickboxer”, should have been aware of the possible consequences of his kick and does not believe that he acted in self-defense. The Public Prosecution Service concludes on appeal that there was manslaughter and therefore demands ten years in prison.
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Rotterdam deliveryman died as a result of serious assault after a fight over a package
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