Category: Mohammed Bouyeri

Van Gogh’s Self-Confessed Killer Declines to Testify in Trial

July 11 (Bloomberg) — Mohammed Bouyeri, the self-confessed murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, declined to testify as prosecutors opened their case against him in Amsterdam today. He faces a maximum penalty of a life imprisonment. In Context Dutch director Theo van Gogh murdered in Amsterdam Watch the film Theo van Gogh was murdered for Suspected Extremist Jailed in Dutch Murder Van Gogh murder accused wanted to ‘become a martyr’ OM: Mohammed B. led Hofstad terror network From Civic Activist To Alleged Terrorist Fanatical Muslim group linked to film-maker’s death Report: radical Dutch Muslims joining Jihad Dutch find the

Trial begins for suspect in Van Gogh murder

Case reveals conflicts between Dutch, Muslims in a tense Amsterdam AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands – A Dutch-Moroccan man charged with the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh goes on trial Monday in a case that has highlighted growing social tensions with the Netherlands’ one-million-strong Muslim community. In Context Dutch director Theo van Gogh murdered in Amsterdam Watch the film Theo van Gogh was murdered for Suspected Extremist Jailed in Dutch Murder Van Gogh murder accused wanted to ‘become a martyr’ OM: Mohammed B. led Hofstad terror network From Civic Activist To Alleged Terrorist Fanatical Muslim group linked to film-maker’s death Report:

Call for uncensored broadcast of Van Gogh trial

AMSTERDAM — The trial of Mohammed B., the man accused of killing Theo van Gogh, should be broadcast uncensored on Dutch television, an academic has urged. Professor Gerard Schuijt said privacy and visual identification legislation offers no legal impediment to broadcasting the entire trial. He said the manner in which Van Gogh was killed and the fact his murder deeply shocked society is sufficient reason for B.’s trial to be broadcast uncensored. The academic wrote in a Dutch lawyers magazine (Nederlands Juristenblad) that the decision could also be defended by the fact the murder seriously impacted the rule of law.

Open letter warns of blood and revenge

AMSTERDAM — Mohammed B., the man arrested for the murder of Theo Van Gogh, wrote an “open letter to the Dutch people” before the attack warning they will pay in blood for the slaughter of millions of Muslims. In Context Dutch director Theo van Gogh murdered in Amsterdam Watch the film Theo van Gogh was murdered for Suspected Extremist Jailed in Dutch Murder Van Gogh murder accused wanted to ‘become a martyr’ OM: Mohammed B. led Hofstad terror network From Civic Activist To Alleged Terrorist Fanatical Muslim group linked to film-maker’s death Report: radical Dutch Muslims joining Jihad Dutch find

OM: Mohammed B. led Hofstad terror network

AMSTERDAM — The public prosecutor (OM) has claimed that Mohammed B., the suspected killer of Theo van Gogh, played a leading role in the alleged terror network Hofstadgroep. The claim was made in a preliminary hearing in Rotterdam Court involving 12 alleged members of the group and is an integral part of the prosecutor’s case to prove the Hofstad group is a terror network. Up to now, it has been suggested B. was on the group’s fringe. The prosecutor demanded on Tuesday that the court remand all 12 suspects in custody for another 90 days until investigations have been rounded

Psych observation of Mohammed B. completed

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. The suspect’s lawyer, Peter Plasman, said that B. refused at all times to co-operate with the seven-week psychiatric assessment at the Utrecht-based Pieter Baan Centre (PBC). In Context In the Netherlands, the vast majority of women who seek help from shelters for abused women come from an Islamic background. Dutch director Theo van Gogh murdered in Amsterdam Submission – The movie Theo van Gogh was murdered for Van Gogh murder accused

Van Gogh murder accused wanted to ‘become a martyr’

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. Mohammed Bouyeri, 26, is charged with the 2 November shooting and stabbing of Theo van Gogh, whose film accusing Islam of condoning violence against women outraged many Muslims. The suspect, who was injured in a gun battle with police before he was arrested in eastern Amsterdam, was not at the hearing. “In a letter to his family he said he had chosen to do his

Killer had help, Dutch court is told

Prosecutors say plot aimed at establishing Islamic theocracy AMSTERDAM – The man accused of murdering Theo van Gogh, a filmmaker critical of Islam, dreamed of replacing the Dutch government with an Islamic theocracy and was supported by a network of like-minded fanatics, prosecutors said Wednesday at the first public hearing in the case. The suspect, Mohammed Bouyeri, 26, an Amsterdam native, did not appear at the pretrial hearing, but his lawyer said Bouyeri wanted to “be held accountable for his actions” and saw them as part of a religious war. The new details underscored concerns over homegrown radicals in the

Van Gogh murder designed to ‘terrorise Dutch society’

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. Prosecutor Frits van Straelen said letters left behind by the suspected killer Mohammed B. and electronic surveillance pointed to a link between him and 11 other Muslim men who are in custody on terrorist charges. Their cases are being kept separate from the Van Gogh murder trial. See also: Dutch Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh Murdered BBC News Report

Filmmaker’s Accused Killer Ignored Pleas for Mercy

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. In the most detailed description yet of the killing, prosecutors gave an account of the morning of November 2, when Van Gogh was shot while cycling to work in a residential Amsterdam neighbourhood where investigators collected 53 eyewitness accounts. The accused, Mohammed Bouyeri, 26, waived his right to attend the pre-trial hearing in Amsterdam. Judges ordered Bouyeri to undergo psychological testing and