Former anti-radicalization official, Saadia Ait-Taleb, has received a ‘concrete and far-reaching’ proposal from the municipality, Mayor Halsema told the city council today. Ait-Taleb was fired in 2017 after allegations of corruption and bribery. In July of this year, she was acquitted by the judge.
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“I wrote a personal letter to her to express my sympathy for the suffering that happened to her afterwards,” Halsema told the council today. The council’s proposal should be seen as compensation for the damage suffered by Ait-Taleb, writes Het Parool.
Ait-Taleb worked for mayor Eberhard van der Laan on the so-called gray campaign to change the minds of radicalizing young people via vlogs. But after the charges she was fired on the spot.
‘In movies’
Immediately after her acquittal this summer, Ait-Taleb told the camera of AT5 how much the lawsuits determined her life. ‘You think this only happens in films, but then you suddenly experience it yourself. I cannot describe what this does to a human
According to Halsema, the proposal should lead to an agreement with the former top civil servant in the short term. An appeal against the dismissal is still pending, but has been provisionally postponed at the request of Ait-Taleb’s lawyer.
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