Suspect of stabbing in Den Dolder is admitted to Pieter Baan Center

The man who is suspected of having stabbed a 76-year-old woman in Den Dolder at the beginning of January will be admitted to the Pieter Baan Center for observation in mid-August. The Public Prosecution Service charges the 28-year-old Mert P. Murder or manslaughter, the public prosecutor reported on Monday during the first introductory session.

The woman was on her way from the village center to her house on January 2, when she became in the Duivenhorst residential area stabbed With a knife. She died of her injuries. That same evening, P. was arrested at the Forensic-Psychiatric clinic of Fivoor, where he has been under treatment since 2023. The man had permission to leave the site without supervision.

The officer spoke on Monday in the Utrecht court of « a very fierce fact » that caused « a lot of sorrow » and « strong social unrest. » She reported that the investigation was completed by the criminal investigation, without making substantive announcements about this. She did say that camera images and DNA traces were collected on the knife, among other things.

Revenge fantasies

Suspect P. was not present in court himself. The man was previously convicted of mistreating random victims. In 2022 and 2023 he would have given passers -by around Heerhugowaard a blow or stump, the OM confirmed earlier after reporting by the Ad.

According to a psychiatrist, he is struggling with revenge fantasies and has « a serious conviction that violence is good in some situations, » one judgment From a year ago. At the time, the chance of recurrence was estimated as ‘high’. Due to P.’s complex disorder, the case was dismissed and was given a forced treatment.

The victim’s husband and family attended the session in an enclosed space. Because the case was not dealt with in content, they were outside again after ten minutes. On June 30 is another session, again about the procedure.

The officer spoke of ‘a very fierce fact’ that caused ‘a lot of sorrow’ and ‘strong social unrest’

In Den Dolder, the murder of the woman loosened a lot. In 2017 a similar incident already occurred in the village, when the Michael P. also included in the clinic the 25-year-old Anne Faber killed. During a residents’ meeting at the beginning of January, the villagers demanded that the municipality would take extra safety measures.

They also wanted to accelerate closing the forensic-psychiatric clinic. The institution has been looking for a new location for about ten years, so far without success. Other municipalities often do not see the arrival of Fivoor, partly due to the incidents around the clinic in Den Dolder.

Deadline

In the meantime, Fivoor has a hard deadline. On January 1, 2027, the Den Dolder care institution must have left. To get a shot in the business, the municipality of Zeist asked an external agency last year for potential locations. During a new residents’ meeting, at the beginning of March, the agency reported to estimate twelve locations as’ promising ‘, of which six had already fallen off at that time.

Alderman Walter van Dijk (Finance, VVD) said that the remaining six buildings or plots are all in the hands of the empire. So he hopes that State Secretary Ingrid Coenradie (Justice and Security, PVV) will mediate. A municipal spokesperson could not report new developments on Monday.

With, among other things, extra police surveillance on the street and better lighting along walking routes around the forest, where Fivoor is located, the municipality hopes that residents feel safer again. The usual walking route from Fivoor patients to the village center was also diverted at the beginning of this April. A fence of two meters high should close a staircase that leads to the Duivenhorst district in order to prevent the patients from walking through the neighborhood.

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