Martine van den Oever

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Martine van den Oever (born 1979) was arrested together with Nouredine el Fahtni and his wife, Soumaya Sahla, on 22 June 2005 on suspicion of being a member of the terrorist organisation Hofstad Network, based in the Netherlands. She was released after six weeks due to what the Public Prosecution called "personal reasons", but remained a suspect. Police found by her a goodbye letter in which she announces an important event[1]

Van den Oever, from Naaldwijk, is of Dutch descent and nationality. She was brought up as a Christian, but converted to Islam when she was 18 after being introduced to the religion by Moroccan schoolmates.[2] After a visit to Syria, where she studied Islam, she started wearing a veil, of which she got more criticism from Muslims than from non-Muslims when she returned to the Netherlands.[3]

In the judicial proceedings against the Hofstad Network, she is still considered a suspect. However, she declared on the Netwerk program on Dutch national TV that she is not connected to any terrorist activity and that she rejects terrorism. She said her goodbye letter was a letter she had written long ago when she was going on a humanitarian mission to the Palestinian territories. The letter contained a telephone number which had been disconnected for the past two years.[4]

Before she converted and became Muslim, she worked for the Dutch police force.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nederlandse moslima Van den O. vrijgelaten, Elsevier, August 3, 2005
  2. ^ Nederlandse moslima Van den O. vrijgelaten, Elsevier, August 3, 2005
  3. ^ Martine van den O.: Ik keur terreur af, FOK!, September 17, 2005
  4. ^ Martine van den O.: Ik keur terreur af, FOK!, September 17, 2005
  5. ^ Hollandse Martine actief voor jihad, Volkskrant, July 6, 2005
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