Public prosecutor listens to journalist in murder trial

It can be seen in the e-mail exchange that the assassination of the Crown witness's brother on the morning of March 29th resulted in a huge "commotion" in police and justice. How vulnerable is the rest of the family ?, the team questioned.

One remark comes from the fact that the reporter "meets" a source "in the following hour. The investigation team expects the facts of the conversation" may be a step forward in the investigation and prosecution of any client (s) of the murder ", writes the Investigating Judge.

The prosecutor immediately requests the permission of the Judge Commissioner to be authorized to register the Journalist's meeting with his source The reportage of the journalists is authorized only in very exceptional cases, because their sources must remain protected.

The investigating judge considers "that the privilege of the journalist in question must deviate in this particular case from the discovery of the truth about very exceptional circumstances. "

Sensitive cases

The journalist meets his source this afternoon and does not know that they are being tapped. competent Attorney General is quickly ren from the account that there was a problem: the OM regulation on what is called "sensitive business" was ignored. The public prosecutor's office in Amsterdam has not been informed in advance. As a result, the Council of Attorneys General of The Hague was not asked for permission either.

The recorded conversation takes place on a disc and the public prosecutor stores it in a safe. The investigating judge and the Attorney General of Amsterdam discuss six weeks of what needs to be done with admissions

The Public Prosecutor considers that "results are not helpful in the investigation and should not be listened to. In addition, the reporter and the source could be in danger if we know that they have been exploited. But the investigating judge is not convinced by the arguments of the public prosecutor, although "I want to take such a signal seriously at all times," he writes

Destroys

The Quarrel is such that the investigating judge on April 18, lasts against the prosecution "ordering you to listen to the recordings in question, to have this done a report and to me the know". The prosecution refuses to comply with this order and reports to the investigating judge that the recording was "destroyed by the prosecution"

Tomorrow the matter will be raised at a first hearing in the case against the shooter who knew that he shot the brother of the crown witness, Reduan B., on March 29.