ANPAli B this morning upon his arrival on the courtroom in Haarlem
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The Public Prosecution Service is demanding an unconditional jail sentence of three years in opposition to Ali B. The rapper is on trial for 2 sexual assaults and two rapes of three ladies.
The Public Prosecution Service says it has authorized and convincing proof for the 4 intercourse crimes. Singer Ellen ten Damme has been reported to have been raped in 2014 in Morocco. Jill Helena (stage identify), former candidate of The Voice of Holland, reported a sexual assault in 2018 in Amsterdam. There was additionally a report of sexual assault and rape in Heiloo in 2018.
In making the demand, the Public Prosecution Service stated it took under consideration that the rapper doesn’t but have a legal file and that the implications of the case are main. One of many punishment objectives, retaliation, has already been partly achieved, the officer stated. In keeping with the Public Prosecution Service, the truth that the occasions came about years in the past was additionally taken under consideration.
The ladies “couldn’t resist” Ali B, the prosecutor stated. “He has no respect for the bodily integrity of victims. There isn’t any empathy in anyway for the harm this might trigger to them.”
That is what the general public prosecutor stated, and that is how Ali B responded to the demand:
Ali B’s response: ‘Confidence within the final result, not intense for 3 years’
Ali B “positively accepts no,” his lawyer Bart Swier stated within the plea. He referred to the statements within the file of two different ladies.
Swier stated that he is not going to accuse the ladies of constructing a false report, however: “I’ll say issues which are much less nice for the complainants to listen to.” In keeping with Swier, for the reason that MeToo motion it has change into “extraordinarily troublesome to doubt the phrases of a lady who says she is a sufferer of a sexual crime.” We have to be cautious to not take the phrases of all these reporting sexual crimes, the lawyer stated.
Ali B “positively accepts no”, Swier stated in his plea:
Ali B’s lawyer in plea: ‘Felony case began within the media’
The Public Prosecution Service sees no cause to doubt the ladies’s statements. Jill Helena states that she was assaulted by Ali B in a automobile within the Amsterdamse Bos in 2018. The rapper stated in courtroom on Wednesday that the BOOSbroadcast from early 2022 about sexual abuse at The Voice may have been a cause for Helena to go to the police. He steered that in any other case he and he or she may nonetheless be “texting.”
However Helena isn’t “pushed” by the BOOSepisode, the officer said. “It might have been the final step, however that’s one thing totally different. The file reveals that she was already toying with the thought of submitting a report in 2020.”
Concerning the statements of Helena and Ten Damme, the Public Prosecution Service stated that they’re supported by declarations and reviews from different ladies. Ali B all the time kisses or touches ladies “very abruptly”, “like some type of abrupt assault”. And the rapper traps the ladies, “in opposition to a wall or automobile door, to allow them to’t get away.” In keeping with the Public Prosecution Service, this usually occurs in a distant location.
‘Strengthening’ tales
In keeping with the Public Prosecution Service, the statements of the 20-year-old lady who says she was assaulted and raped in Heiloo are additionally dependable and constant. The assertion of a brand new witness who solely got here ahead this week additionally performs a job on this. This witness said that somebody in Heiloo instructed her whereas crying in 2018 that she had been raped by Ali B, the general public prosecutor stated.
The witness was using her electrical bicycle via Heiloo when she discovered the lady, the officer stated. She gave her a carry to the station and suggested her to do one thing about her unhealthy expertise. In keeping with the Public Prosecution Service, the tales of the witness and the complainant don’t utterly match one another, however they do correspond on many factors.
Alternatively, lawyer Swier argued that the statements of the lady who says she was abused in Heiloo will not be dependable. She instructed various things a number of instances to each kinfolk and the police, the lawyer stated. She initially solely instructed a pal that she had had an argument with Ali B. “Later she began exaggerating this. Exacerbating it to sexual assault and rape,” that pal is alleged to have said.
Swier’s plea is anticipated to final till the top of the afternoon. Afterwards, Ali B himself has the ultimate phrase.
