The Belgian police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for threatening the Dutch writer Lale Gül online. Since the release of her book I’m going to live about the strict Islamic environment in which she grew up, the author, who is of Turkish descent, is threatened.
The police investigated together with digital specialists. This led to a suspect in Belgium being brought into the picture. Following a request for legal assistance to the Belgian judicial authorities, the suspect was arrested and heard today. He has admitted to Lale Gül’s threat, police say.
Due to the young age of the suspect, the police do not want to say more than the arrest was in Flanders. Gül has been informed of the arrest. At the beginning of this month, a suspect of threat from Gül was also arrested. Then it was a 19-year-old man from North Brabant.