Hans van Themsche is released conditionally and is included in a psychiatric institution
Hans van Themsche (37) will be released on 23 June 2025 under certain conditions. The Ghent criminal court announced this in a press release. He will immediately be included in a specialized closed department for intensive treatment.
The criminal court of Ghent has approved the request for conditional release by Hans van Themsche. That judgment will be executed on June 23, 2025. But the court says that Van Themsche will immediately be included in a specialized closed institution. This recording will take as long as necessary. The re -socialization in society is also included within this guidance, it sounds.
« Research showed that the perpetrator there was a rather narcissistic personality structure, claustrophobia and an autism spectrum disorder (more specifically Asperger). According to experts, this extensive form of psychopathology requires intensive treatment in a specialized residential setting, with sufficient structure and external control. »
According to the criminal court court, Van Themsche is motivated and is willing to follow the advice of the institution. Within the detention, he has also received guidance from a psychologist for years. The reporting shows that he has distance themselves from the radical and racist ideas. He has a more nuanced picture of society and no longer thinks in ‘we and she’ terms.
That is why the court grants him a conditional release. Van Themsche will also have to adhere strictly to a series of individualized conditions. For example, he must have a fixed address, to be treated residentially in a specialized institution, he is not allowed to contact victims, he is not allowed to come to the province of Antwerp and he is not allowed to have profiles on social media. There is also an alcohol and drug ban. He is not allowed to enter bars, night clubs, dancing, cafés, gambling offices and play halls and he must stay in our country.
Read too. Why Hans Van Themsche was allowed to leave prison for the first time in 18 years
Hans van Themsche shot three people in Antwerp on 11 May 2006. Two of them, an African woman and a 2 year old child, died. A third person, a Turkish woman, survived the attack. The motive of the shooting was racist, and the perpetrator had extreme right -wing thoughts. He was sentenced to a life sentence.
