Still jail time for threat Pieter Omtzigt | Inland

The man from Heerlen took part in a demonstration on the Plein in The Hague on 20 August last year. Later that day he saw Omtzigt walking. V. then walked up to Omtzigt with a number of others and spoke to him in a loud voice, walked right in front of him and blocked the free passage, forcing Omtzigt to stop. When the politician continued, V. scolded him and made a death threat. It was not until the next day that Omtzigt learned via social media that the suspect had shouted ‘I will kill you’.

Last November, the police judge sentenced the man to a fully suspended four-month prison sentence for an ‘attempted threat’, because Omtzigt had not heard the death threat on the Plein. The Public Prosecution Service then appealed.

The Public Prosecution Service had demanded four months in prison at the court in The Hague, of which one month was suspended. The court made it two months conditional, because of V.’s personal circumstances.

Court reporter Saskia Belleman followed the substantive handling of the case in November:

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