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The court follows the judgement of the psychiatrist who determined that the perpetrator had a psychosis at the time of his outbreak of violence in Forum. He stabbed a fellow student with a comb and hit Resource editor Roelof Kleis on the head. The other student suffered both physical and psychological damage. The court decided that the victim will receive a compensation of over 3000 euros from the perpetrator.
The court will not sentence the perpetrator. Following the psychiatrist’s opinion, the court also considers the chances of a repeat violent offense in the future to be low. The psychiatric symptoms are deemed to be a one-off occurrence, which is why the court does not impose any additional measures for probation.
During the hearing, the perpetrator – who has gone back to his motherland of Colombia since the incident – indicated that he would like to resume his study in Wageningen in due time. Wageningen University is willing to re-register him, says Ingrid Hijman, head of the Student Service Centre. However, the university does not want him to come back to Wageningen but to finish his degree in Colombia; he only needs to do an internship and a graduate course.
Additional reading (partly in Dutch):
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