American suspects of the Limburg atrocity murder will soon be extradited | Inland

The three are said to have killed a resident of Bergen on behalf of a Swiss, who appeared in court in Roermond on Friday during a non-substantive hearing.

The Public Prosecution Service also announced that documents from a search in Switzerland will soon be sent to the Netherlands. These will be discussed in a subsequent non-substantive session. In addition to the Swiss suspect, the three Americans are also present at that hearing. The three would have been hired by the 51-year-old Swiss, who, according to justice, would have ordered the 58-year-old German Thomas Schwarz in Bergen to kill. The cause would be a business conflict.

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The Swiss is said to have engaged a now 35-year-old American former deputy sheriff as a hit man. He would then have traveled with two compatriots to Bergen to kill the German in his home on Roefsstraat.

A major international investigation has been underway since the body was found. The Swiss was arrested in North Macedonia at the request of justice in the Netherlands in July 2020 and was subsequently extradited to the Netherlands.

The three Americans are men from Connecticut, Mississippi and Colorado. The American judiciary has now read the telephones of the three. According to the OM, this shows not only a lot of mutual communication, but also with the Swiss main suspect.

During the trial, the suspect stated that he was innocent and had nothing to do with the murder. He said he suffered greatly from the situation. He only wants to make a statement if he is sure that it will not be published in American media. According to his lawyer Jeroen Soeteman, this is because the craziest stories about him appear in the American media, which harm his business and private interests.

The court extended the Swiss’s pre-trial detention on Friday.

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