(NL Times) Prosecutors in the Netherlands called on judges in an Amsterdam courtroom to convict Jawed S. in the stabbings of two American tourists at Amsterdam Central Station. The prosecution service argued that the act was a premeditated attempt to murder, with terrorist purposes, justifying a maximum allowable prison sentence of 25 years.
“Jawed bears full responsibility for his actions. He doesn’t run away from that,” his attorney, Simon van der Woude, said in response. Van der Woude said that S. should receive a lighter sentence than the prosecutor wants because S. is relatively young with no prior convictions. He also called on the court to acquit his client of threatening the police officers involved in the incident, saying that he was not waving his knife specifically at the officers at the train station that day.
“Leave my religion alone,” S. said in his own closing statement. “Otherwise you know what will happen.”
