Belgian court gives Dutch road hog community service

Posted on 16-01-2015 at 20:13 by JordyS – 46 Comments”

Someone death by car, and there from come with a taakstrafje, that can only in the Netherlands, yet!? Unfortunately not, because Belgian judges do not always work to prison sentences.

That proved once again in the case of a Dutchman who in 2011 two girls death rode in the Belgian city of Turnhout. The man rode the teenagers (16 to 19 years old) around 5.00 in the morning of their scooter, but did not stop. He declared later that he was getting out, but that he didn’t see what had happened, and therefore drove. That seems to us a rather remarkable statement for someone who has two teenagers of a scooter has been ridden, but the judge ruled otherwise.

At least, that we can conclude on the basis of his statement, because the Dutchman comes away with a community service of 150 hours and a driving ban of three years, of which one is conditional. That prohibition applies only in Belgium, because the Belgian authorities can’t prohibit in the Netherlands back behind the wheel. A month of full-time hoeing is enough for his punishment to solve.

The relatives are outraged at the fopstraf, we like the decision feel free to call. They have, therefore, the Facebook-page ‘Judicial error or cowardly judges‘ set up and leave there loud and clear to hear what they of the case. The driver would, for example, drunk behind the wheel are crawled, but that could not be proven, because there is no blood test is done.

That is not the only mistake that they want to address, because the police and justice have in the eyes of the family more blunders committed. The case will therefore have a tail…