In the Amsterdam hotel rooms where the police found six Colombians on 16 February after a deadly shooting in Bergen aan Zee, nearly 600,000 euros of cash was in suitcases.

Because the three men and three women are no longer in complete restrictions since this week, lawyer Koopman is now allowed to say something about the involvement of his client, a Colombian woman who lives in Madrid. She was “friends” or “acquaintances” with the 45-year-old Colombian who was shot dead on February 16 in a parking lot near the beach entrance of Bergen aan Zee.

According to the lawyer, the victim may have been held hostage. His wife and son allegedly put him in a car when he was shot and drove to the center. There the car was blocked by the police on Stationsstraat and the man died.

According to Koopman, several cars drove away from Bergen aan Zee that afternoon, both those of the gunmen and the six Colombian suspects. The suspected getaway car of the still fugitive gunmen (a white Mercedes with white German license plate) was found later that evening at a car company in Egmond aan den Hoef.

The six Colombian suspects were arrested in an Amsterdam hotel. Nearly six tons of cash was found in three hotel rooms. There would also have been two alarm pistols. The Colombians were initially suspected of murder, but after an investigation, the judiciary adjusted these charges to money laundering and illegal possession of weapons.

According to Koopman, the police and the judiciary knew immediately that the six had not fired, but 'belonged to the victim'.

The motive for the shooting is still unclear. It is suspected that the perpetrators come from Germany.