Women jailed for making threats against RIVM chief Jaap van Dissel May 13, 2021
A 54-year-old woman who made online threats against Jaap van Dissel, a key member of the government’s coronavirus Outbreak Management Team, has been jailed for eight weeks, four suspended.
The woman, who comes from Apeldoorn, was found guilty of incitement after sharing Van Dissel’s home address via message service Telegram and calling on people to ‘bring bricks to his birthday’.
A second woman, aged 53 and from Terneuzen, was jailed for six weeks, four suspended ,for circulating a video stating Van Dissel was a paedophile.
During the trial, Hans Brug, the director general of the public health institute RIVM said his staff are reaching their limits. ‘The RIVM can take it, and we don’t avoid criticism, the opposite in fact,’ he said. ‘But this case goes further, and is directed at a single person.’
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Metamorphosis Of A Dutch Top Public Health Official, Jaap Van Dissel, In The Face Of The Covid-19 Pandemic
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FILE PHOTO: People ride bikes on an empty street as Netherlands has gone into lockdown as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Amsterdam, Netherlands December 15 2020, REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A national lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands will probably have to last at least until mid-February and even then can only be partially lifted, one of the country’s health chiefs said on Thursday.
Jaap van Dissel, head of infectious disease control at the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad that some 2 million people in the country of 17 million had caught COVID-19 and probably had some immunity.