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Reporter Silvan Schoonhoven will be present at the case on Thursday. Follow his posts at the bottom of this article.
Boersma again has to defend herself against allegations about her relationship with Aziz A., known as the ‘Bar jihadist’ because frightened fellow countrymen were the first to recognize him in that debate center in Amsterdam. Boersma and A. had a relationship.
She allegedly helped him to forge documents so that he could obtain a visa in the Netherlands. Boersma denies. She expects to be acquitted for lack of evidence. But the judiciary remains with the suspicion and demands 120 hours of community service – and if it is not carried out, a detention of 60 days – plus a suspended sentence of 1 month. “She does not see the evil of what she did, I see a chance of repetition,” said the public prosecutor. Boersma’s lawyer wants acquittal.
Ans Boersma
A case is still pending against A. He is said to have been a leader of Al-Nusra, the second man of the jihadist fighting group, and is held partly responsible for 19 murders. Later he was able to come to the Netherlands and party at festivals without any worries.
Abdelaziz H. at Loveland festival.
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“He sometimes talked about doing something with a friend”
The Syrian also got his ex Ans Boersma into trouble. She previously received compensation from the State because she was expelled from Turkey in 2019. This happened after the Netherlands made a request for legal assistance to Turkey in the terrorism case against her ex-boyfriend. Because of that request, the Turkish authorities suspected her of links with the Syrian fighting group Jabhat al-Nusra, after which she was put on a plane to the Netherlands.
“It was up to him to tell about that”
Boersma herself did not have those ties, but on Thursday she was questioned extensively about her role in the visa application. She wrote in that filing that Aziz was earning $ 2000 a month, but she didn’t know what he did or when. “He sometimes talked about doing something with a friend.”
Boersma wrote that Aziz worked as an ‘independent businessman’ and earned money, while she actually knew nothing about it. Perhaps she should have exaggerated the story, shouldn’t she have continued asking? “I thought he was really working, but I never saw him work.”
Conversations
Besides, the judge told her, isn’t she a journalist? “And so curious,” said the judge. “What did you know about him after five months?” Not that much, Boersma countered. “We didn’t have such deep conversations. It was up to him to tell about that. ”
Boersma tells how she is doing. The case has not left her with cold clothes. All kinds of employers cut ties with her when she was deported. “I still miss my job as a correspondent. I love Istanbul. A beautiful city to be in love with. ”
Reporter Silvan Schoonhoven will follow the case live from 9 a.m. in Rotterdam. Check out his updates below:
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