John van den Heuvel has in a video item from The Telegraph tried to paint as clear a picture as possible of the security situation of Mohamed Ihattaren. The twenty-year-old midfielder is still not present at Ajax training sessions and matches and Van den Heuvel therefore wanted to distinguish fact from fiction about the underlying reasons. The crime reporter adds to last Sunday that people with a criminal background have been in the car with Ihattaren, and that he probably does not owe any blame.
“I started calling people to try to find out exactly what was going on,” Van den Heuvel begins in the item. “What I was told was that he had a relationship with a young lady, or at least was friendly with it. That was not appreciated by the girl’s family. At one point there was talk of a criminal threat, which became so big that Ihattaren would temporarily not appear at Ajax. I tried to verify that with the police.”
The study brought more data to the table. “The police has information about people with a criminal background who would have been close to the Ihattaren family. And would have been in his (Mohameds, ed.) car. A car made available by Ajax to players, a This has led to Ajax, in consultation with security experts, saying: “Don’t come to the club for a while,” said Van den Heuvel.
The journalist regrets the turbulent period from which Ihattaren seems unable to get out. “He’s always in the corner where there are blows. It seems like he can’t be blamed all that much, except that he may have made an unfortunate choice. So it’s not that he is specifically accused of anything criminal. In any case. not by the police. No report has been made from his side against possible threats, I was able to verify that.”
Ihattaren still played during the first two exhibition games in the preparation, but then suddenly disappeared from the selection of Alfred Schreuder. When Ajax announced the player group for the training camp in Austria, the club communicated that Ihattaren was ‘not fit’. Not long after revealed The Telegraph that there was more going on around the growth brilliance. The newspaper further reported that the intimidation and threats do not come from supporters.
Ihattaren himself responded in the negative on Monday to the rumors about his security situation. “I can sometimes laugh at the media”, was the reaction of Utrechter on an Instagram Story of his sister Najwa, who indicates that the family has nothing to do with crime and threats “and is always super strong”. “Healthy and soon back little brother, we are fine. Don’t believe everything.”
His sister’s Instagram Story shared and supplemented by Mohamed Ihattaren