A 46-year-old man Moroccan man identified only as Hassan N. who placed a fake bomb in front of a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital was sentenced today to an eight-month prison term.
In January, he placed a cardboard box with no explosives and bearing the logo of the Heineken beer brand in front of the HaCarmel eatery; the box had masking tape fastening wires and a black electric trigger switch to its top.
He was found via his DNA on the wires and security camera footage, the NIW Dutch-Jewish weekly reported.
Hassan N. was previously convicted of insulting a worker of the national railway company, NS, by calling him a “cancer Jew.”
Herman Loonstein, the lawyer representing the owners of the restaurant, the Bar-On family, told NIW the sentence was “very light” and would not prevent a recurrence of such acts.