The public prosecutor’s office suspects two pro-Palestinian demonstrators of assaulting a board member of VU University Amsterdam. He was beaten last year and suffered hearing damage when demonstrators shouted into his ear with a megaphone.
From a pro-Palestinian tent camp on the VU campus, demonstrators spotted board member Marcel Nollen. When they caught up with him, he fled into a building. Nollen was trapped in the revolving door and beaten, reported university magazine Ad Valvas. The attackers also shouted into his ear with a megaphone. The police eventually had to free him.
Assault
Last Tuesday, two suspects appeared in court on suspicion of deprivation of liberty, Ad Valvas writes. On Tuesday, the Public Prosecution Service added “assault” to the charges. Nollen is said to have suffered permanent tinnitus as a result of the incident.
The judge postponed the substantive hearing of the case for four weeks because the Public Prosecution Service presented three new witness statements from campus security guards at short notice. The suspects’ lawyers had not yet had time to study them. (HOP, OL)
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