Tom (48), eyewitness to the murder of Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004; "I heard Theo van Gogh beg for mercy. "Don't do it! Don't do it!" he cried. I saw him fall onto the bicycle path. His killer was also calm. That really schocked me. How you can murder a person in such cold blood, right there in the street?I had sleepless nights for weeks... Every night I see Theo van Gogh fall and Mohammed B. quietly finishing his job ... Since then I trust very few people. Mohammed B. could be one's neighbor: If I say "fucking nigger" to a Surinamese, I'm called a racist, even though he can call me a whitey. You can no longer say what you think these days. No, we've become foreigners in our own country."
NRC Handelsblad, July 30, 2005
He lay on his back, his hands stretched above his head, two knives sticking out from his chest, slaughtered like a sacrificial animal. Bouyeri gave the corpse a few hard kicks and walked away, without hurry, easy as could be, as though he had nothing more dramatic than fillet a fish.Still calm, he made no serious attempt to escape. While he reloaded his gun, a woman who happened by screamed: "You can't do that!" "Yes, I can," Bouyeri replied, before strolling into a nearby park with several patrol cars rushing to the scene, "and now you know what you people can expect in the future."
fra Ian Buruma: Murder in Amsterdam, the Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
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