Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 00:38• Dominic Mostert • Last update: 00:42

The cousin of Quincy Promes, who claims to have been stabbed by the Spartak Moscow attacker, wants the Public Prosecution Service to make a decision on criminal prosecution before the start of the European Championship, reports The Telegraph. According to his lawyer Yehudi Moszkowicz, it seems that the Public Prosecution Service is deliberately lingering with the decision, apparently to grant Promes an undisturbed European Championship, the newspaper writes.

“There is more than enough evidence, including two eyewitnesses, to prosecute,” Moszkowicz believes, who believes there is a legal inequality. “Every other suspect in this relatively simple case had long since been brought to justice.” The criminal lawyer threatens with a so-called ‘Article 12 procedure’ if the Public Prosecution Service does not make a decision before the European Championship.

Through such a procedure, the Court of Appeal will consider a request from the victim to order the Public Prosecution Service to prosecute. Gerard Spong, Promes’ lawyer, does not want to respond to the request from the victim’s camp. KNVB director Eric Gudde reports that there is no question that the KNVB has asked the Public Prosecution Service to raise the matter about the European Championship. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the public prosecutor received the investigation file at the end of May and time is needed to study it and come to a decision.

Promes, who exchanged Ajax for Spartak Moscow in February, denies having stabbed the victim during the conscious family party in Abcoude in July 2020. However, there are several witnesses who claim that the 48-time international is indeed the one who inflicted the injuries. For example, the sister of the victim of the stabbing would have stated that she had pulled the knife from the attacker’s hands at the time.