Wednesday, July 1, 2020, 12:20 PM
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ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN –
Destroying the windows of seventeen cars in the Diamantstraat in Alphen aan den Rijn was probably a revenge action. The police draw that conclusion after extensive investigation. That says John Nieumeijer, team chief of the police in Alphen aan den Rijn, to media partner Studio Alphen.
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According to Nieumeijer, however, hard evidence to arrest one or more suspects is lacking. A day before the vandalism, on Monday 25 May, two local residents arrested a man from The Hague on Parelstraat. This man was suspicious of some cars in the street and he was suspected of breaking into. He was fined by the police.
‘It is presumably in response to this arrest by persons outside Alphen that a revenge action has been planned on the cars of the local residents who arrested the man on May 25. The result was seventeen destroyed car windows the next morning, ‘says Nieumeijer.
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The police conducted an extensive neighborhood investigation, viewed various camera images and spoke to several witnesses who saw a car driving down the Diamantstraat in the morning of 26 May.
“Unfortunately, we do not have hard evidence to determine with certainty who carried out this revenge action. We have not been able to identify the car, the type and the registration number, as well as the possible suspects, ‘Nieumeijer concludes. The police investigation has now been completed.
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