Dutch film-maker's killer gets life

[Eugene]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1536276,00.html

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Dutch film-maker's killer gets life

Staff and agencies
Tuesday July 26, 2005

A Dutch court today sentenced the self-confessed murderer of Dutch
film-maker Theo van Gogh to life imprisonment.

Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, mounted no defence at his two-day trial earlier
this month for the murder of Van Gogh, whom he accused of insulting
Islam, and told the court he would do it again if given the chance.

The murder on November 2 last year heightened religious and racial
tensions in the Netherlands and raised concerns about home-grown
Islamist terrorism.

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[dutchdoctor]

1. exactly what he deserves. n/t

[nine23]

2. The creepy, brain-dead, non-repentant fuck deserves it.

I only hope in the Netherlands, life means LIFE, ie. he'll die in prison.

[dutchdoctor]

4. Life is life, nananana!

They should make a pop song out of it. Oops I think someone already did.
Anyway, this guy will never see the outside of a prison again.

[Endangered Specie]

3. Van Gogh killer jailed for life

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4716909.stm
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A Dutch court has sentenced a 27-year-old radical Islamist to life in prison for the November murder of controversial film-maker Theo van Gogh. Mohammed Bouyeri, who has joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, had made a courtroom confession and had vowed to do the same again if given the chance. The murder in Amsterdam stunned the Netherlands. The court ruled that it was a terrorist act.

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Van Gogh, a strong critic of radical Islam, was shot and stabbed in broad daylight as he was cycling through Amsterdam. His throat was slashed and the killer also pinned a letter to his chest with a knife, which threatened Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She had written the script for Van Gogh's controversial film Submission, which criticised the treatment of women under Islam.

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=977461
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=peopleNews&storyID=2005-07-26T095752Z_01_N26101116_RTRIDST_0_PEOPLE-SECURITY-DUTCH-VANGOGH-DC.XML
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1536276,00.html?gusrc=rss

Too bad they can't fry this fucker :mad:

[Mizmoon]

5. What an awful human being

I'm glad that freak will never see the outside of a prison ever again ...

[geek tragedy]

6. Life sentence for killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/07/26/van-Gogh-sentence-050726.html

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A man in the Netherlands was sent to prison for life on Tuesday for killing controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

The court called the killing a terrorist act.

Mohammed Bouyeri, a 27-year-old Dutch citizen, received the harshest sentence possible.

"The murder of Theo van Gogh provoked a wave of revulsion and disdain in the Netherlands," Judge Udo Willem Bentinck said in Amsterdam.

"Theo van Gogh was mercilessly slaughtered," the judge said, adding that his killing caused "great fear and insecurity" in the Netherlands.

Bouyeri ambushed the filmmaker on an Amsterdam street in November 2004.


FROM NOV. 2, 2004: Controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh killed

He shot Van Gogh repeatedly, stabbed him, and slit his throat before thrusting a letter – the killer's manifesto – into his chest on the point of a knife.

Bouyeri showed no emotion as the verdict was read out and shook his lawyer's hand afterwards.


He'd earlier told the court he was following his religious beliefs.

"I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults Allah and his prophet," he said.

He also said he intended to die in the attack on Van Gogh, to become a martyr for his faith.

Van Gogh, a distant relative of the artist Vincent van Gogh, was apparently targeted because of his 2004 short film Submission, which told fictional stories of Muslim women who were sexually and physically abused.
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[smirkymonkey]

7. Good. I hope the rest of his is miserable.

[Blue_Tires]

8. sad loss of a brave filmmaker

[ConfuZed]

9. Van Gogh killer jailed for life

A Dutch court has sentenced a 27-year-old radical Islamist to life in prison for the November murder of controversial film-maker Theo van Gogh.

Mohammed Bouyeri, who has joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, had made a courtroom confession and had vowed to do the same again if given the chance.

The murder in Amsterdam stunned the Netherlands. The court ruled that it was a terrorist act.

The judge said the murder had triggered "great fear and insecurity" in society...<More>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4716909.stm

"na na na na hey hey hey good-bye"

[barb162]

10. I am glad they caught him and put him away forever

[jobycom]

11. How come we never think of the Netherlands as a place to flee to?

Just in this little blurb, I'm now interested. They sentence killers to life (do they have a death penalty?), violent murders actually shock people and trigger great fear and insecurity, and big trials don't have to take up the next three years before being settled.

Plus they don't criminalize vices, as I recall, or not as much as hear. How difficult is Dutch to learn?