The Dutch war criminal Siert Bruins is deceased, reports the Dagblad van het Noorden. Bruins, according to the newspaper for more than two weeks ago, deceased at the age of 94.
Bruins lived in Germany. During World War II he was in the Waffen SS and fought on the eastern front. In the Netherlands, he worked for the German intelligence service. He was also called "The executioner of Appingedam.
Murder Dijkema
The end of 2013 he became the persecuted German justice for the murder of Klaas Dijkema Aldert resistance fighter in 1944. In January 2014 the District Court in Copenhagen ruled that there was insufficient evidence for murder. For manslaughter was sufficient evidence, but that crime had already expired.
The prosecutor announced in the first instance to appeal, but saw later on. Thereby evaded Bruins finally a prison.
German cell
In the eighties, the Bruins have spent five years in a German cell. That was for the murder of two Jewish brothers Meijer and Lazarus Sleutelberg.
Just after the war, he was sentenced to death in the Netherlands, though, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. But Bruins managed to escape to Germany. Despite the escape, so he was thirty years later still convicted by a German court.
Keep silent
The relatives of the victims regret the silence of Bruins. He never has designated the place where the brothers are buried.
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