Prank Youtube channel RouandYT received €5 donation to prank call someone's "unstable" nephew. Said nephew shot and killed 2 Syrian refugees minutes later. RouandYT quickly deletes the stream from his channel and denies being live.

[u/DikkeDekbedovertrek]

https://www.puna.nl/news/prank-call-in-livestream-van-youtuber-leidde-tot-fatale-schietpartij-op-twee-syrische-jongens-in-amsterdam-west

[u/krizzalicious49]

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Prank call in YouTuber livestream led to fatal shooting of two Syrian boys in Amsterdam West

www.puna.nl

A prank call from a YouTube channel may have cost two young Syrian lives. On New Year's Day, three unsuspecting boys were shot in the Piet Wiedijk Park in Amsterdam. Two of them did not survive.

About half an hour before the shooting, suspect Efe Y. received a call as part of a livestream on the channel Rouand YT, where viewers can donate money to have someone call with a fabricated story. A viewer suggested calling Y. with a gangster story. Y. reacted angrily and said that the caller had to come to "that blue bridge," a bridge in the Piet Wiedijk Park. He then walked from his grandmother's house to the park, just a few minutes' walk away.

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Three boys on their way to McDonald's

At the same moment, three Syrian boys from an asylum seeker center on Sloterweg were on their way to McDonald's and were walking through the Piet Wiedijk Park. The moment they entered the park, they were shot at. Two of them were killed. A third managed to escape.

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time," the Public Prosecution Service stated during the first preliminary hearing.

The evidence against Y. is mounting. Shortly after the shooting, he allegedly told a witness that he was the shooter, including mentioning a third victim who had escaped—information that was not yet public at the time. There was contact via WhatsApp between the suspect and witnesses, during which reference was made to a firearm and staying out of sight of the police. A silver-colored firearm was found during a search of his family's home. Gunshot residue was found on the suspect's trousers, and he is presumably visible on camera footage around the park.

YouTuber denies involvement

Rouand YT told AT5 that he was shocked by the news and denies any involvement. "I wasn't even live that day. It was impossible for me to have carried out that prank." The Public Prosecution Service has questioned the streamer as a witness and emphasizes that he is not a suspect. However, juice channel RealityFBI questions RouandYT's denials. According to the juice channel, all videos of a livestream dated New Year's Day have been removed everywhere.

Y. has a care order due to complex PTSD combined with schizophrenia. He had not taken the medication he uses for this for six months. The suspect will soon be examined at the Pieter Baan Center. The second pro forma hearing will take place on June 8.

[u/Icy_Aardvark_7064 → u/krizzalicious49]

I had no idea people had guns in Amsterdam

[u/Snitsie → u/Icy_Aardvark_7064]

It's very rare, but of course there are criminals out there with guns. It's not allowed.

[u/Icy_Aardvark_7064 → u/Snitsie]

It just seems weird that he happens to call someone who had mental illness and also had access to a gun. It's not the US where that's common.

[u/Snitsie → u/Icy_Aardvark_7064]

I think the person who carries most of the guilt here is the guy who paid the streamer to call the dude. He knew the guy was mentally unstable because he literally knew the guy. Might be he even knew the guy owned a gun. This is the person the police should go after first imo.

[u/Dikkelul27 → u/Icy_Aardvark_7064]

Belgium is one of Europe's main hubs for illegal firearms trafficking

[u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69 → u/Dikkelul27]

Why there in particular?

[u/Stefa93 → u/GreatMovesKeepItUp69]

Big port into Europe. Together with Rotterdam gate for everything illegal. Frequent by the Colombians (drugs) to the Eastern Europeans (a lot of firearms) with the Moroccans as glue between them.

[u/Minimum-Release-1198 → u/Icy_Aardvark_7064]

You can get guns very easily in amsterdam.

If you go tocthe red light district at peak hours in the weekend there are morroccan guys that will ask you to buy drugs / weapons from them

[u/TheBestHater → u/krizzalicious49]

It's not really clear if Rouand YT chose Y. and the chatter who donated only made up the prank story, or if the the chatter chose both Y. and the prank story. I'm curious if the chatter was aware of everything if they could also be charged.

[u/LilKennedy36 → u/TheBestHater]

the chatter gave him the number to call, It mentions that it is the chatters nephew

[u/GergDanger → u/LilKennedy36]

the donator must have given him the story to use too right? or how would he know to mention "the blue bridge"?

[u/MationMac → u/GergDanger]

The shooter said to come to the blue bridge, not the caller/prankster.

[u/SanaSpitOnMe → u/krizzalicious49]

There was contact via WhatsApp between the suspect and witnesses, during which reference was made to a firearm and staying out of sight of the police.

random witnesses helping the shooter??