(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is appealing the decision of the Rotterdam court in the case of Utrecht tram shooter Gökmen T. regarding his misconduct in prison. The OM said in a press release published on Wednesday that it [is] “highly undesirable” that T. receives no additional punishment for his actions.
T. is currently serving a life sentence for the attack on a Utrecht tram in March 2019 that killed four people and injured six others.
While in custody at the De Schie penitentiary in Rotterdam in February 2021, T. stabbed a prison guard in the neck and face with a piece of copper he had taken from a refrigerator pipe. The court deemed this act attempted murder, as he fabricated a self-made stabbing weapon specifically for this purpose.
