Category: Mohammed Bouyeri

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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