Car dealer on notorious gangster shoot, do not go to jail: sanction of eight years is effectively five year postponement

Ravels car Dealer Joop Mannaerts (47) is indeed challenged when he in march 2015 from his house in Poppel shot at Klaas Otto, ex-president of the Dutch motorcycle club No Surrender. The court of appeal accepts the ‘elicitation’ and sends Mannaerts home with a sentence of 5 years with a delay. In the first instance, had the court in Turnhout him sentenced to 8 years effective imprisonment.

The Dutch car dealer Joop Mannaerts that at the Border in Poppel (Ravels) lives, got it in 2015 to stick with Klaas Otto of the infamous Dutch biker gang No Surrender. He squeezed him for money. When Mannaerts refused to pay, he got a spanking.

The evening of march 20 there was again on the door gebonkt. Klaas Otto was visited in the clubhouse of No Surrender in Poppel, and passed afterwards, Mannaerts. The dealer was afraid to say that for the safety of his wife and children. To Klaas Otto to scare them off, he opened the window of the toilet and then with a gun out to fire. “To Klaas Otto, in fear that he would go away,” said the car dealer.

The court in Turnhout found at the end of 2017 is not that Mannaerts was challenged by Klaas Otto, or his legal defence had shot. He had, according to the judges, not random shots a warning shot discharged, but had indeed chucked. Klaas Otto was not hit because he at the last minute could hide. Therefore, it was Mannaerts sentenced to eight years of effective imprisonment.