BRUNSSUM - Lawyer Van Berge Henegouwen does not want to say anything about the statements his client has made to the police so far. The boy is under restriction, which means that - except with his lawyer - he has no contact with the outside world.
About the manner in which his client was detained last Friday, the counselor is unapologetic. "I find it shocking that a fifteen-year-old boy, who is sitting with his mother preparing for tests he has in the coming week, is taken away; completely stripped and put in a police cell in one of those blue, paper moon suits shivering with cold. Moreover, the lawyer was notified too late. My client was arrested just after nine o'clock, while I was not informed of this until a quarter past twelve. At that time he was in his first interrogation. I cannot call that a coincidence. Apparently they were keen for him to go into his first interrogation without a lawyer."

Press Officer Smits would not comment on that. "If requested, we will give full disclosure to the lawyer during arraignment at the magistrate's court and not before."