Glennis Grace hears verdict in assault case Amsterdam supermarket | Amsterdam
NewsSinger Glennis Grace will hear on Wednesday, together with four other adult suspects, what punishment they will receive for the assault in a Jumbo store in Amsterdam. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has demanded two hours of community service and twelve months in prison.
It violent incident took place in a Jumbo branch in Amsterdam’s Westerstraat. According to Grace, earlier that evening, her son would have been violently pushed out of the store after smoking an electric cigarette at the exit. He would then have fallen against a rack, resulting in injuries to his face.
Something completely different and the boy behaved inappropriately and aggressively. About an hour and a half before he left the supermarket, a group of people stood in front of the Jumbo, including Grace, to get a story.
Camera images
The camera images show that the singer pushes an employee in a counting office in the face, pulls on his wrist and gives him a knee. Another employee is brutally dragged out of the office by her ex-boyfriend by the head and beaten by several people.
The images clearly show that a wild chase then ensues in the supermarket, in which the group of men in hoods and caps run after the employees and deal hefty blows and kicks.
Initiator
Glenda Batta, as Grace is actually called, is seen by the Public Prosecution Service as the initiator and leader of this open violence. She came up with the idea to go to the Jumbo, struck the first blow and has enough practice to stop the violence of the others. Moreover, the assault was premeditated, with the Public Prosecution Service.
App conversations with her ex-boyfriend revealed that Grace was planning to go back to the Jumbo so that ‘heads would start rolling’. The Public Prosecution Service therefore demanded two hundred hours of community service and a month in jail for public assault and pre-degree assault.
Negative media attention
The officer of evidence that it was taken that Grace has suffered great damage from what happened. For example, she has been receiving negative media attention for months and has lost all her jobs. Her lawyers actually do not agree with the sentence: they argue for acquittal.
Two hundred hours of community service was also demanded against a third suspect, a 20-year-old man from Amsterdam, 150 hours against a 51-year-old man. A fifth suspect, a 21-year-old man, as far as the Public Prosecution Service is concerned, also carries out 150 hours of community service and must receive two months in prison because he was on probation.
On October 18 Grace sat at the talk show table of Eva Jinek about the case. She then said she found the whole thing “a nightmare.”
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