A police officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old suspect in Delft in October 2018 must still be prosecuted. That is what the court in Amsterdam has specifically.
The court dealt with a complaint from relatives about the earlier decision of the Public Prosecution Service (OM) not to prosecute the agent, reports Broadcasting West.
On October 8, 2018, two people tried to shoot at coffee shop The Game in the Breestraat in Delft. When the suspects tried to flee on a scooter, the police shot them five times. One of the suspects, an 18-year-old man from Zoetermeer, was left with a gunshot wound at a hospital in Zoetermeer not much later. There he died.
After an investigation by the National Criminal Investigation Service, the Public Prosecution Service concluded that the agent’s use of firearms was justified because the co-driver on the scooter allegedly aimed a fully loaded firearm at him. According to the Public Prosecution Service, it was also permitted to shoot at suspected firearms who fled.
‘Complex’
The court ruled that prosecution is in order, after a so-called complaint was received from the relatives in April last year. They felt that the agent ‘could and should have acted differently’.
The court calls “the facts and circumstances so complex” that a “careful substantive assessment by the criminal court is in order”. The court has therefore ordered the public prosecutor to prosecute the agent.
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