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Mohammed Bouyeri ( Arabic: محمد بويري Muḥammad Būyiri; born 8 March 1978) is a Moroccan-Dutch Islamic terrorist serving a life sentence without parole at the Nieuw Vosseveld ( Vught) prison for the 2004 assassination of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh. A member of the Hofstad Network, he was incarcerated in 2004 and sentenced in 2005.
- Incarcerated
- Life without parole
- 8 March 1978 (age 45), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mohammed Bouyeri was a dual Dutch-Moroccan citizen who murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Bouyeri shot and stabbed van Gogh as he cycled to work on November 2, 2004. He professed that he targeted van Gogh out of religious conviction, as van Gogh was a prominent critic of Islamic fundamentalism and had recently directed a short film ...
Jul 26, 2005 · Bouyeri was arrested shortly after Van Gogh's killing. A Dutch court has sentenced a 27-year-old radical Islamist to life in prison for the November murder of controversial film-maker Theo van Gogh. Mohammed Bouyeri, who has joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, had made a courtroom confession and had vowed to do the same again if given the chance.
Oct 30, 2014 · Oct. 30, 2014. AMSTERDAM — Nothing marks the spot on an unremarkable street in east Amsterdam where on Nov. 2, 2004, Mohammed Bouyeri, a 26-year-old Moroccan Dutchman — saying he was acting to ...
Dec 26, 2017 · Mohammed Bouyeri acted alone, but he was a leading member of what later became known as the Hofstadgroep (Hofstad Group), a loosely-knit circle of Dutch Muslim youth from Amsterdam and The Hague with extremist ideas and half-hatched plans to execute terrorist attacks around the country.
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Jul 26, 2005 · Mohammed Bouyeri, an Amsterdam-born Muslim of Moroccan descent, was found guilty of killing Theo van Gogh in early November of last year as he cycled to work in Amsterdam. He shot and stabbed Van Gogh, slashing his throat and then pinning a note to his body with a knife. The attack was carried out in broad daylight. Brutal killing
Jul 27, 2005 · Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, an Amsterdam-born Muslim of Moroccan descent who confessed to the murder and pledged to kill again if acquitted or released, received the harshest sentence available to an ...
