(NL Times) Gokmen T., the 38-year-old man on trial for killing four people in a mass shooting on an Utrecht tram on 18 March 2019, was again removed from court on Tuesday. This time he made a snide comment to one of the victims who survived the attack. “I no longer want the suspect in the room,” the court president said, NOS reports. “I don’t want order to be disturbed in this way.”
On Tuesday, the second day of the trial surrounding the attack on 24 Oktoberplein, the surviving victims and relatives of the four people who were killed were given the chance to speak. One survivor, [a] 21-year-old woman, told how T. shot a girl. She heard him shout “Allahu akbar” before she was shot in the back. “While I was bleeding out on the ground, I pinched my own fingers. Did this really happen? As soon as the ambulance arrived, everything went black.”
