Erasmus shooter Fouad L. must be declared of diminished responsibility. This is the advice of behavioural experts from the Pieter Baan Centre (PBC) to the court. They have diagnosed L. with an autistic disorder that is said to have influenced him in the shootings on 28 September last year in Rotterdam.
Due to the seriousness of his disorder and the facts, the experts advise the court to impose TBS with compulsory treatment on L..
The public prosecutor announced this today in the court in Rotterdam during the fourth preliminary hearing. The Public Prosecution Service will include the experts’ report in the substantive hearing of the criminal case, which will begin next year.
Fouad L. is suspected of shooting dead his neighbor Marlous (39) and her daughter Romy (14) in their home in Rotterdam-Delfshaven. He then went to the Erasmus MC where he shot dead teacher and general practitioner Jurgen Damen (43).
Commemoration
It was a year ago on Saturday that this happened. The three victims were commemorated in various places in Rotterdam . Until Saturday evening, a light projection of a heart with two hands holding each other could be seen on the building of the Erasmus MC. “These are undoubtedly painful days for everyone involved,” the public prosecutor said at the hearing.
The officer also said that Fouad L. had spoken extensively about the facts of September 28 last year in his conversations with experts from the PBC. He had not done so in interrogations with the police. “We also want to confront him with all the results and findings.”
L. was not present at the hearing. The next preliminary hearing is on December 2. The suspect must be present then.
