(NL Times) Gokmen T., the suspected gunman in a mass shooting in Utrecht on March 18th, assaulted a prison employee a few weeks before the attack on 24 Oktoberplein, Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus of Justice and Security said in a letter to the Tweede Kamer, the Volkskrant reports.
The deputy director of the prison reported the assault on March 8th, but by then T.’s pre-[trial] custody had already been suspended. Just before T. was released, he received a “disciplinary punishment,” Grapperhaus said, though he did not say what this punishment entailed. “In the interest of the investigation,” the minister can not say anything more about the incident.
At the time of the assault, T. was in custody for rape.
