The police uses football club De Graafschap to draw attention to a cold case case of a murdered baby. The child was found murdered in a pond in Doetinchem in 2006.
Children discovered the newborn boy frozen in a reed collar, they initially thought it was a doll. Police determined that the child had been violently killed, but were never able to find the parents or arrest a suspect.
Attention during competition
The children who found the child came up with the name Sem Vijverberg for him. The police hope that De Graafschap’s efforts, which play in Stadium De Vijverberg, will provide answers. “The Doetinchem club has an important function in the city and the region and is prepared to pay a lot of attention to the matter,” explains a spokesperson. For example, a match on April 2 against Dordrecht is all about the case.
In addition, the police will again be distributing flyers in the coming weeks in the area where the child was found and the police ‘mobile media lab’ will drive through the city, where people can get information about the case. Moreover, there is attention in it Investigation Requested.
Why?
“The case calls for answers: who killed the child, why did it die and who are the father and mother,” said a police spokesman about the campaign. “This is a crime, we must not lose sight of that.”
This year, the police will intensively draw attention to several cold cases in the regions where the cases took place. An earlier campaign about an old murder in Groningen, led to the arrest of a suspect.
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