After the expulsion of anatomist George Maat was the Ministry of Security and Justice do all it can to let the affair quickly bleed to death.
A conversation between the minister and George Maat in September 2015 was primarily aimed at this. The aim was to offer especially no excuses. The Ministry especially wanted that MPs and the media were not constantly stir up the affair. In vain.
This is evident from the internal memo minister Ard van der Steur received prior to the call in September 2015 of its officials. This is what the minister should and should not say to Maat.
The minister had to satisfy size and especially the many courses. ,, The aim of the meeting is to "get the chill out of the air" in the relationship with prof. Size and to ensure the subject is not always in the media and by MPs is resurrected, '' it says in the memo.
Yet excuses
The minister offered last week still apologies to size, but it was at the first meeting in September, especially not the intention. The Minister was then the statement: ,, offer no apologies. You take your words back, but they put it into context. Your earlier response was motivated by feelings and reaction of kin. ''
CDA MP Pieter Omtzigt find the memo typical of the way things: ,, So this is so ''.
Reading
George Maat was sent off after a lecture on the identification of victims MH17 leaked. Later it appeared that the police no good rules exist for such lectures and Maat was little to fault. When the anatomist was already publicly written off by the minister. At this time debating the House on the issue and why Minister Van der Steur various studies and letters about this affair was hiding for months.
Koen Voskuil and Jeroen de Vreede / AD.nl/ © Reuters
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