©Guy Ackermans
Last Thursday, the student stabbed a fellow student with the back of a point comb and subsequently wounded a WUR staff member who intervened. The fellow student, who follows the same programme as the perpetrator, had some light wounds and was released from the hospital the next day. The WUR staff member, Resource editor Roelof Kleis, had suffered a damaged brow and a black eye.
Safe
It seems unlikely that the perpetrator will return to the university or to his student dorm. ‘We will have a thorough look at this’, says Ingrid Hijman, head of the Student Service Centre. ‘We want to offer everyone a safe place, including this student.’ What made the student snap is unknown to her. ‘It is not possible to say; the most bizarre things get in one’s head during a psychosis.’