Yavuz O. (22) chatted publicly for months about the assassination of politicians and Prime Minister Rutte in particular. “I don’t know what got into me,” he said himself today in the court in The Hague.
Cyril Rosman
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Yavuz O. wanted to “clean up parliament, with deadly force,” he wrote on chat app Telegram. “Letting that damn gang bleed.” For example with a ‘c4 bomb’. Or with ‘shooters’. In particular, outgoing Prime Minister Rutte was the target. “Everyone hates him anyway.”
The Public Prosecution Service sees a whole series of messages from the Amsterdammer, posted over a period of six months, as incitement to a terrorist offense and preparations for an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister. Also because he was looking for weapons and met others offline to discuss the plans.
‘With myself in knots’
“I don’t know what got into me. It was never my intention to do anything,” O. said today during a first interim session in the court in The Hague. The Amsterdammer was arrested in July and has been incarcerated ever since, he has no further criminal record. I’ve been having a bit of trouble with myself lately, I regret what I’ve done.” According to his lawyer, he was “mainly looking for friendships” online.
The Public Prosecution Service also sees ‘psychosocial problems’ in O. and wants further research into his psyche. The Amsterdammer will therefore remain in prison for at least three months.
I’ve been having a lot of trouble with myself lately
‘Radical undercurrent’
O., about whom little else is known, thus seems to be an example from the ‘radical undercurrent’ of the corona protest, about which intelligence and security services have been warning for several months. These services mainly fear ‘unpredictable, dangerous loners’. Although the concept of loner is subject to inflation; under the influence of countless online chat services such as Whatsapp, Telegram or 4Chan, people rarely radicalize alone anymore. Usually the digital traces lead back to long online discussions, often late into the night.
In the case of O., that discussion could be read publicly for months in the Telegram group Freedom without Uniform. A chat group in which people came together who strongly dislike the Dutch government and the cabinet’s corona measures in particular. Conspiracy theories also came along: the corona vaccine would be used to insert microchips into people, which are later activated by the construction of the 5G network.
In the group, O., who used the alias Liber8, was one of the founders and leaders. He also wrote the most radical lyrics. ‘Would you have what it takes to shoot them all? gwn from a car. Open the window, shoot outside. and just pop,” he posted in December last year. In May he still talks about it: ‘We really should storm that parliament and clean up that mess with deadly violence.’ A day later: ‘I’m not looking for protesters, I’m looking for revolutionaries. Shooters/hitters/arms/violence. Everything allowed.’ And: ‘The entire royal family can also eat bullets.’
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Organization
In addition, it was read how some members of the group discussed how they could best organize themselves. In cells that didn’t know too much about each other, in case the police caught them.
All the police had to do was press print for an incriminating file. Additional research revealed that O. had also met people in the offline world to talk about his ideas. And that he would have been looking for a gun. O. was also active in another Telegram group called Batavian Republic. That group is one of the most notorious gathering places of conspiracy theorists in the Netherlands. Several members have already been sentenced to months in prison for threatening (including) RIVM boss Jaap van Dissel.
O. remains in jail for the time being, the next hearing in his case is in January.
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