Antwerp, The reconstruction of the deadly shooting in the Brederodestraat in Antwerp is over. The three suspects have their version of the facts set forth. According to lawyer Ergun Top, the perpetrators are already busy with their defense: “the execution in the second phase of the shooting they will remember nothing more.”
At the shootings of Saturday, February 2, were the cousins Emre (28) and Ozan (21) Sogutlu shot by father Mehmet Y. (60). He took it for his son Nihat Y. in the Brederodestraat a pittazaak operates. The cousins had just before the windows of that case with a sign ingeklopt. A passer-by that help is wanted to offer, was by father Mehmet also shot in the leg. Emre survived the shots. His cousin Ozan. He got a bullet in the back and is temporarily in a wheelchair because he only has a feeling in his legs. The family hopes that he is not a permanent paralysis come from the shooting.
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The investigating judge ordered this morning the three suspects to turn their version of the facts, explain. First it was father, Mehmet Y. (60) on the turn. He came that Saturday on the two cousins Emre (28) and Ozan (21) Sogutlu walk just before the windows of the pittazaak had smashed. the
According to attorneys, Johan Van Genechten and John Mees has Mehmet Y. correct the facts again, like he did shortly after his arrest to the police has known. Mehmet Y. claimed that the two cousins Sogutlu in the legs wanted to shoot. Lawyer Johan Van Genechten: “After a first shot was a struggle for the weapon and doing so is a second shot exploded. That shot hit a victim in the eye. That was never the intention of my client.“
The second and third defendant’s son Nihat Y., and his wife, were allowed to follow their version of the facts.
Lawyer Cedric Monheim: “My client and his wife were not involved in the first phase of the shooting. They came together to the outside as the victims on the ground. My client admits that he than with a stick has struck. As he that from the beginning of the investigation has been declared.”