AMSTERDAM — The psychiatric assessment of Mohammed B., the suspected killer of Theo van Gogh, has been rounded off, allowing for his transfer away from the judiciary's observation clinic.

A Dutch-Moroccan man accused of murdering a filmmaker critical of Islam believed he was doing God’s will and wanted to die a "martyr" at the hands of the police, prosecutors told a pre-trial hearing yesterday.

Prosecutors say plot aimed at establishing Islamic theocracy

AMSTERDAM — A public prosecutor told a high-security court in Amsterdam on Wednesday that terrorism is now a reality in the Netherlands. The murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, he said, was a catalyst to drive a wedge between different sections of Dutch society.

The accused killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh ignored his victim’s pleas for mercy and calmly shot him at close range before slitting his throat, prosecutors said today at the first public hearing in the murder case.