The 32-year-old man who shot two people in a busy McDonald’s in Zwolle in March says he was extorted and threatened for months by the two brothers and their family. Veysel Ü., as his name is, says he did not want to kill the pair, writes the NOS Saturday on the basis of police interrogations.
“I really regret what happened at McDonald’s,” said . last month according to the NOS against the investigation. “I am terribly ashamed. Also for the children who were there.”
Ü opened on March 30. the fire in the branch of the fast food chain. Many people were present in the McDonald’s at that time, including many children. The branch was closed for two weeks after the shooting.
After the incident, Ü. at a police station in Deventer. “I did something bad,” he said, according to the interrogations. YOU. He immediately admitted to shooting and was arrested. Already in his first interrogation, the shooter stated that he would have been extorted.
According to the NOS are now chat messages between the murdered brothers, their relatives and Ü. examined. The suspect was also questioned further. According to the detectives, it would appear that the man owed hundreds of thousands of euros from the son of one of the killed brothers.
YOU. wanted to buy real estate in Turkey
YOU. had his own Turkish food business. He wanted to buy real estate in Turkey through the victims’ families, he said NOS during the interrogations.
He said he had invested a lot of money in it, which he has never seen again. The son of one of the brothers shot to death denies this, saying that it is correct Ü. was the one who cheated.
What it really is, according to the NOS not really clear yet. The son of one of the brothers would send threatening messages to Ü. have sent.
Man had to pay 30,000 euros
On the day of the shooting, the brothers spoke to Ü. in the McDonald’s in Zwolle-Noord. He had to pay the brothers, he stated. This time it would be 30,000 euros.
The conversation lasted almost an hour, but escalated, according to Ü. when he said he couldn’t pay. “I was told: I will shoot you and we will take your children with us.”
With you. then something snapped, although afterwards he said he didn’t really know what exactly happened. “I felt broken inside,” quotes the NOS the police interrogations.
The lawyer for the killed brothers denies the allegations. The preliminary hearing in the case is next Thursday. YOU. is not there himself, writes The Stentor.
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