The Dutch footballer Rai Vloetwho now plays for the Russian club Ural Yekaterinburgwas sentenced this Monday to two and a half years in prison, and four years’ loss of driver’s license, for causing an accident on a highway near Amsterdam which took the life of a four-year-old boy.
A court in the Dutch city of Haarlem now the 27-year-old football player is considered guilty of causing the accident on November 14, 2021, and, as the defendant admitted in court two weeks ago, he drank “two or three glasses of alcohol” at a party he went to. in Amsterdam before getting in the car and driving on the highway.
In addition to two and a half years in prison, vloet he will not be able to drive a car for the next four years because, the judge ruled, it was “extremely irresponsible for him to drive with so much alcohol and so fast: with his actions he caused irreparable loss, so no punishment. can alleviate punishment and pain.” pain”.
Car data vloetwho was riding with another friend when the accident happened around midnight, shows that he was traveling at 203 km per hour before the accident, on a highway where the speed limit is 130 km per hour, although the prosecutor assumed that vloet he was driving at about 120 mph, allowing for a margin of error.
The persecution He asked for a sentence of three and a half years in prison vloet.
vloet He appeared in court two weeks ago, but today he did not hear his sentence in person because he is in Russia at the moment, although his lawyer has indicated that he “wants to serve his sentence” in the Netherlands. It is unclear whether he will appeal the decision, but once the sentence is finalized, he will receive an official summons to jail.
The footballer was suspended by his club then Heracles Almelo After the accident, and as “the Netherlands became quite unbearable” for him, Vloet himself assured, he went to Kazakhstan and now plays football in Russia.
“Our lives are paralyzed and you carry on as if nothing bad happened. You’re going to play football Kazakhstan and Russia“, the victim’s mother insulted him during a hearing, according to NOS public television. The footballer replied:” I only feel pain, a lot of regret. I have to carry that with me for the rest of my life.”
Source: La Verdad
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