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Polish burglar caught in Almelo, suspected of double homicide.


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Edited by: A J  May 23, 10, 13:33    #1
Polish burglar caught, and suspected of the murder of two Dutch elderly people.

A 25 year old Polish man got caught red-handed when he broke into a house in Almelo, and in the same area, two elderly Dutch people were murdered in their homes one night before that. The man is suspected of double homicide.

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 May 23, 10, 14:24    #2
Keep us posted on the verdict, and see if you can get any pictures of the suspect.
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Edited by: MareGaea  May 23, 10, 16:39    #3
I have translated the article:

Polish burglar suspected of double homocide in Almelo.

The 25-year old burglar who was arrested last Thursday in a house on the Ambtstraat in Almelo, is now also suspected of having committed two murders on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to the police.

The man was apprehended on Thursday morning in a house on Ambtstraat where he was caught in the act of burglaring. Shortly after his arrest came the call of a social worker of HomeCare that her 73-year old client, also living in Ambstreet, wasn't answering the door. Police responded to the call and found the woman dead in her house. She was killed.

Wednesday night the body of a 53-year old man was found in a house on the Goossenmaatweg. He too had been killed. The exact cause of death is yet to be determined.

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Seems this guy, if he did it, has been pretty busy: burglaring three houses and killing two ppl in the span of just one night...In a middle-sized Dutch city, actually not far from where I come from. We've had trouble before with Polish burglars in the borderarea before. Some of them, known to Polish police, have been extradited to PL where they got a very much less good treatment than they would get in NL.

>^..^<

M-G (well, he's gonna go to jail anyway for the burglary for which he was caught red-handed)
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 May 23, 10, 16:53    #4
MareGaea:
We've had trouble before with Polish burglars in the borderarea before.

Why must we focus on the ethnicity / nationality of the perpetrators all the time. It can only lead to stereotyping....

:-)
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 May 23, 10, 16:58    #5
ShawnH:
Why must we focus on the ethnicity / nationality of the perpetrators all the time. It can only lead to stereotyping....


:) I'm just following the general tendency on this forum and besides, they were all arrested. Given the number of ppl here who give out to coloured and all other non-Polish ppl, it makes it more fun to point out that not all Poles are good as well ;)

>^..^<

M-G (tiens)
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 May 23, 10, 17:13    #6
ShawnH:
Why must we focus on the ethnicity / nationality of the perpetrators all the time. It can only lead to stereotyping....

Oh jeez.. I really hate that political correctness notion, lets call things how they are, I mean what's the point of omitting his nationality on purpose? If it hasn't been said I'd ask about his nationality anyways..

Of course there are other burglers in Netherlands, everyone knows that, for many, me included it's an interesting and strange thing that a polish national is committing crimes somewhere outside Poland. I really hope he's gonna get what he deserves for.

MareGaea do you think such situation might worsen Dutch point of view on Polish people in Netherlands? Or are such cases rare enough to go though without any kind of echo in the society.
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Edited by: MareGaea  May 23, 10, 17:22    #7
frd:
Oh jeez.. I really hate that political correctness notion, lets call things how they are


He was just joking, frd. Nothing more, nothing less.

frd:
MareGaea do you think such situation might worsen Dutch point of view on Polish people in Netherlands? Or are such cases rare enough to go though without any kind of echo in the society.


No, I don't think that this will worsen the view on Poles in my country. Most smart ppl know that within any ppl there are good and there are bad ones. Not so smart ppl will of course point fingers immediately, but they would do so with just about any nationality, if you catch my drift. And as far as this guy committing his crime(s) (let's not jump to conclusions just yet - for now it's only sure that he committed the burglary on which he was caught red handed) in the Netherlands, well, he is a criminal, he probably has committed crimes in PL too. I don't think it really matters to guys like that where they commit their crimes.

The crime spree I was referring to happened a few years ago and was committed by a Polish gang who robbed houses and then loaded the loot into a truck to sell it back home. The spree was orchestrated from within PL. I will see if I can get some English languaged material on it. But they all got caught by co-ordinated police actions from the Dutch, German and Polish police and they are all in jail now, some in PL, some in NL.

>^..^<

M-G (most Dutch ppl know that Poles are hard workers and there is still this gratuity towards the Polish soldiers who liberated part of NL in WW2, so don't worry about that, my friend and it's actually amazing how well Polish ppl who live in NL have adapted to Dutch life...That is, they seem to have trouble learning the Dutch language, for which I don't blame them - it's a freaking hard language to learn)
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 May 23, 10, 17:31    #8
frd:
Or are such cases rare enough to go though without any kind of echo in the society.


Don't worry, I'm going to post more articles.

:)
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 May 23, 10, 20:58    #9
Is there any further news on this? I saw that this happened some time ago? Any update yet?

>^..^<

M-G (maybe AJ can shed some light on this?)
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 May 29, 10, 08:43    #10
Looks like he was burglarizin' in the wrong time wrong place
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Edited by: Stu  May 29, 10, 09:11    #11
MareGaea:
Is there any further news on this?


tctubantia.nl/regio/twente/6721781/Poolse-verdachte-dubbele-moord-Alme lo-geobserveerd.ece

"Friday May 21st

Polish suspect double murder under observation

ALMELO - The Pole Robert Jozef K (25) is under observation since Thursday in the Pieter Baancentrum (Stu: psychiatric observation clinic, run by the Ministry of Justice) in Utrecht. He is suspected of having killed J. Noppers and J. Tillema in an exceptionally brutal manner after he had broken into their home.

It is believed the man is a psychiatric patient. The case will probably come before a judge on Aug 17th, although there are still a lot of facts which need to be investigated.

Yesterday, K was not present during his arraignment hearing."



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