Crime Reporter Jolande van der Graaf
Maria from Limburg is certain: her ten-year-old son was almost certainly attacked and almost kidnapped in March this year by Donny M., the suspect arrested today in the horrific case of the murdered boy Gino (9) from Kerkrade.
"My son saw M.'s picture on social media this afternoon. He immediately recognised him as one of the occupants of a grey Tesla that tried to overpower him on the street in March. One of, because there were two other men in that Tesla."
Although I have no official confirmation from the police and the OM, I have decided to include Maria's story on my website tonight. Even if it was not Donny M. who tried to kidnap her son at the time, this case is serious enough. For Maria and her child were not taken seriously at all by the police. And if it was Donny M. who struck in Geleen and surroundings in March - possibly with two accomplices - with various kidnapping attempts, then as far as I am concerned it is time for a parliamentary inquiry into the umpteenth investigation scandal in this country.
First, let's go back to yesterday. When Gino from Kerkrade was still missing on Friday morning, I started looking on the Internet.
I stumbled across an article dated 29 March on the website of the Limburg broadcaster L1. In it the police asked residents of Geleen and surroundings at the time to be extra alert due to reports of a child molester. Similar reports had also been received from Genhout, Beek about a man who tried to take children from a grey Tesla, the media reported two months ago. The police then reported that the man was armed with a knife and asked residents to report any children being molested.
Could there be a link and could this be the same man who took Gino, my tweet read on Friday morning. After all, there are many similarities: the man who struck in March was targeting boys the same age as Gino. He was armed and apparently did not hesitate to try several times to lure boys from a grey Tesla on the street with his sight. This perpetrator therefore took a lot of risks.
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"I was at home that day", Maria remembers. "My son had gone to the football field in our village. Afterwards, he cycled home with a cousin and my younger son. Because he had lost one of his football shoes at some point and his brother and nephew were cycling on, he had fallen a little behind."
At that moment, a grey Tesla suddenly drove up beside the boy. "My son is sure it was a Tesla," Maria continues. One of the three occupants then got out, Maria was later told by her child. "Meanwhile, the man behind the wheel shouted at my child that he would get new football gear if he got in. Thank God my son didn't think twice. He was terrified and cycled home at breakneck speed. The man who had got out of the car ran after him.
Her child came home totally upset, Maria looks back. "He was completely panicking, but nevertheless managed to tell me very clearly what had happened."
After contacting her parents-in-law, Maria decided to call the police that same evening.
"I wanted to report it, because I consider an attempted abduction of a child a very serious matter. But the officer I spoke to told me I could not come to the police station because of Corona. I was also told that I could not report the incident. I could only make a report. Because nothing happened to your child,' the officer said. I spoke to the police for ten minutes at most. After that I never heard anything."
Maria did find out that three other children - all boys around ten years old - had also been harassed by men in a grey Tesla. So that would mean that at least four young boys had been harassed in the same area at that time by a group of perpetrators in the same car.
BBM
I've skipped some paragraphs from Jolande van der Graaf's report, because contrary to what she apparently claims, LE did not remain passive.
Politie vraagt om alertheid na melding kinderlokker met mes MARCH 29, 2022
The police are asking for extra alertness from Geleen residents after a report of a child molester. Reports of a child molester in Genhout in the municipality of Beek are also shared on social media.
The report came in last Wednesday, a police spokesperson told L1. The child molester would have a knife in his car.
"The district agent uses the information in the neighbourhood and talks about it with local residents. We ask for extra alertness and for people or children who have experienced something to report it. We do not yet have a description", according to the police.
According to reports on social media, the child molester would drive a grey Tesla near schools and playgrounds. In these places he would ask children to get into his car. There are already many warnings on social media.
Online, several parents claim to have informed the police after one of their children became a victim. Yet that does not always seem to be the case: the police say they have only received one report.
BBM
No grey Tesla has been mentioned in connection with suspect Donny M yet, AFAIK
