“Former Prime Ministers Cook and Balkenende secured after murder Chest ‘- nrc.nl

Police investigations around the residence of former minister Els Borst. Photos ANP / Remko de Waal

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Former Prime Ministers Wim Cook and Jan Peter Balkenende last year monitored for months after the assassination of former minister Els Borst. That Cook said today in an interview with the AD . Following the security was that Bart van U., the suspect in the case Chest, had shortly before the murder at Breast rung and had asked for the addresses of Cook and Balkenende.

Cook tells the AD he Chest two days after the first confrontation with Van U. spoke at the farewell party of Beatrix. There Chest Cook would have told about the incident. “Wim, Wim! I defended you like a lion! “Breast exact words would have been. Ten days after the first meeting was again at U. Of Breast door and brought her stabbed to life.

From the incident could be deduced that Van U. actually the former Prime Ministers, and not Borst, had wanted to murder. Cook did after the assassination of his story to the police. Who then had friends and hairdresser Breast already learned that the man was looking for addresses of former prime ministers.

As long remained unclear who the murder was committed on Chest, Cook were and Balkenende according to the former prime minister secured for several months. The combination of excessive violence and the search for the confused man brought the police according to Cook “on high alert”. When at the beginning of this year it became clear that Van U. murder had probably committed the security was reduced. U. was already fixed for the murder of his sister in Rotterdam.

U. has in the case Chest so far on his right to remain silent. The murder of his sister Lois, he confessed it before. In the case concerning Van U. went according to a report by the committee Hoekstra almost everything wrong that could go wrong. The police and the public, the committee did not adequately signals of U. was a danger to society was

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