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🇳🇱🔴 "It wasn't a German man. It was an Iraqi who had applied for asylum in Germany."
14-year-old girl Tamar from the Dutch city of Marken was hit and killed by an Iraqi driver while she was walking on a road in July 2020.
Here is her mother telling Dutch media that the police lied to her and told her the suspect was a "German" because they did not want the case to support right-wing politician @geertwilderspvv.
The prosecution even dropped the case. For political reasons? The family will never know, but the Iraqi, Jamal T., is finally being brought to court and tried after her parents fought for years for his prosecution.
In fact, it was discovered that all four men in the car had an Iraqi background.
When she learned this information, she told Dutch media that the police responded that they had withheld the real background “because we didn’t want to create a Wilders-effect.” She described this as a “second blow” after losing her child, emphasizing that they should have been honest rather than offering “political excuses.”
The driver did not just flee the scene in Zeedijk, but evidence suggests that her body was moved at the scene of the accident. He claimed, however, that he never noticed hitting the girl, saying he thought he hit “something” but did not know it was a human. Nevertheless, Tamar was hit so hard by the impact that the coroner said she died instantly.
Despite driving away from the scene of the girl’s death, he was given only a €1,500 fine for looking at his phone while driving. However, he was not even delivered the fine, as he disappeared and the fine was “undeliverable” for years.
The family finally took matters into their own hands. They filed an Article 12 procedure, a legal mechanism allowing citizens to challenge a prosecutor’s refusal to take a case to trial. Now, finally, after six years, the 33-year-old Iraqi is being prosecuted for the fatal accident and fleeing the scene.
Police and prosecutors lied to the entire family for “political reasons” to hide the identity of the killer, according to the mother. Then, the family had to take matters into their own hands to force the case to trial.
The European legal system at work.
