Eight years in prison demanded for Wouter van Luijn’s death Inland

Wouter van Luijn was on holiday with his father on Mallorca for a few days in 2018. He was killed when he went to buy drugs in the Son Banya slum. Adrian H. robbed him of the 800 euros that Van Luijn had in his wallet. He also punched and punched the 34-year-old Dutch filmmaker several times in the face, causing him to fall to the ground and unable to react or get up. It was the 19-year-old suspect himself who then took Van Luijn to the hospital. He said he found it somewhere on the side of the road. Van Luijn died that same night. An autopsy revealed that he had gone into cardiac arrest after an acute brain haemorrhage caused by the blows.

The next day Adrián H. was arrested. He initially insisted that he had found Van Luijn on the side of the road at a gas station and had driven to the hospital. He later admitted that he had mistreated Van Luijn himself. He said that was out of annoyance because Van Luijn urinated on the street.

Adrián H. was in custody for a year and was released after paying a bail of 30,000 euros. But now the Spanish prosecutor has demanded eight years in prison.

Wouter van Luijn was a celebrated editor and worked on films such as Wolf, Aanmodderfakker, Rabat and Brasserie Valentijn. He was posthumously awarded a Golden Calf for the film ‘We’.

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