Rapper Appa is free again: he is said to have posted inflammatory messages about Remembrance Day

Rachid El Ghazaoui often expresses solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza on Instagram. His lawyer Haroon Raza says that his client categorically denies that he wanted to call for the disruption of the National Remembrance Day on Dam Square. The rapper and his lawyer suspect that he has been arrested so that he is still in detention at eight o’clock on Saturday evening and therefore cannot disrupt anything, with the suspicion of incitement as legitimacy.

At the end of April, the rapper posted messages on social media in which he called for people to shout during the commemoration on Dam Square. ‘Precisely at the moment when a holocaust from history is commemorated, the hypocrisy surrounding the contemporary Holocaust MUST be shouted’ and ‘There is no more perfect moment to raise the cry of the Genocide in Gaza than on May 4 during Remembrance Day’ the rapper’s messages read.

The rapper was arrested on Saturday morning. “The police forced open the door of his parents’ house around nine o’clock in the morning and arrested my client with brute force and in handcuffs for sedition and attempting to disrupt a demonstration,” says lawyer Raza. He was free again late Saturday evening.

Arrest

The police have not released anything about the arrested man. “We will not make any further statements about the identity of the suspect,” said a police spokesperson. The police do confirm that, following a request from the Public Prosecution Service, a 41-year-old man was arrested on Saturday morning and was subsequently interrogated extensively.

Belgian author and former politician Dyab Abou Jahjah condemns https://twitter.com/Aboujahjah/status/1786783391137800436?t=GqhoTcLw_vTZdLyi1Pv4Ig&s=19 the rapper’s arrest on behalf of his pro-Palestinian March 30 movement. “This conduct of the Public Prosecution Service, which is clearly intended to stifle a prominent pro-Palestine voice, is a violation of the right to freedom of expression and an attack on the democratic principles that the Netherlands should uphold,” Abou Jahjah said. .