The parents of 27-year-old Robert who died on Wednesday in a care institution in Wageningen are furious with the institution and the police. They wonder why nobody intervened before. They also think that the police used extreme violence in the overthrow of the psychotic man. They want to know what exactly happened.
“It’s horrible,” says Father Richard at Omroep Gelderland. Yesterday, on Friday, he and his wife got to see their son’s body for the first time. “All wounds in his face, on his legs. We don’t have an answer yet to what has been the cause of death.”
The police are very sparing with information so far. Robert would have shown aggressive behavior from the start of the evening on Wednesday evening. In the course of the evening he focused his aggression on employees of the institution. They managed to overpower him, awaiting the arrival of the police. When agents tried to arrest him, he died.
Psychoses for ten years
Father Richard says that Robert has been suffering from psychoses for ten years. The last three or four months he was “sliding down”. Richard: “It got worse and worse. This was no longer possible. I spoke to a supervisor every week, or via the app, or by telephone. Every time I indicated that this was no longer possible. That it went wrong. And now it is too late. “It went so wrong now. If only he had sold someone a slap there. They would have said,” Oh, well, now we have to intervene, then they have room for him in one go. But they let it slip. ” is nobody who has taken action. “
After a first section, a decision was made to forensic investigations. That should provide clarity about how the man died. Employees of the care institution are heard about their possible role in this. The police are also investigating the 112 reports about the incident. Local residents say that the emergency number was called at least three times and it took a long time for the police to arrive.
Emergency numbers called
It is unclear whether the research will also include the telephone calls that father Richard made after Robert, who did not have a telephone himself, put a cry for help on Facebook at 8.15 pm Wednesday evening. “Then I started calling the whole line. But I didn’t get hold of anyone. Then you get more and more worried. And then I started calling emergency numbers. From the RIBW, that’s the institution where my son is, I called the emergency number I was then redirected through to a supervisor. I also got the voicemail again. “
Eventually the father got a roommate from Robert. But he said he couldn’t do anything because the police stopped him on the stairs. The next thing the parents heard was that their son was dead. Then it took until yesterday before they were allowed to see their son’s body after the police investigation.
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