Younes S., the suspect involved in the robbery of René van der Gijp, is released, it reports General Newspaper Wednesday afternoon. That decision was taken by the court in Rotterdam, as there is still no insight into the substantive handling of the case. Van der Gijp was brutally robbed in April last year when he returned to his home after a broadcast of Veronica Inside. Ultimately, it did not yield any loot to the robbers, who were probably after Van der Gijp’s Rolex.
On April 27 last year, three unknown men smashed into the windows of Van der Gijp’s car with an unknown object, but they are made of safety glass and therefore did not break. The former right winger was able to drive away quickly and got away without physical damage. “I was standing in front of the gate, and suddenly three guys jumped out of nowhere in front of my car and started smashing into that car like idiots with hammers,” the analyst said at the time. “I have those windows that you don’t get through, normally one blow is enough. If you get one blow on the head, like on those windows, you’re dead.”
The three suspects who appeared in court, two of which were involved in a robbery of Nikkie de Jager, are associated with participation in a criminal organization. According to the Public Prosecution Service, this organization has been frequently engaged in theft, extortion with violence and home robberies on mostly wealthy people since 2020. Four other suspects were released in June. According to the court, the General Newspaper to have struggled for a long time with the suspension requests of the remand of twenty-year-old Younes S. The court called the crimes very serious facts.
Because the start of the substantive process can still take six months, the court decided to let the suspect go until the final verdict of the case is due. If they go wrong again in the meantime, long prison terms await. Van der Gijp previously revealed that he paid a visit to one of his robbers in the aftermath of the robbery. “I entered into a conversation with that boy, because he wanted to apologize,” Van der Gijp said Veronica Inside. “It was quite sad. There is a boy of twenty years. No education, no work, just lives with his mother.”