Double murder on Alblasserdam care farm committed with bullets bought on Telegram
The bullets used to kill two people at a care farm in Alblasserdam in 2022 were bought on Telegram, BNR reported based on its own investigation. Convicted killer John S. bought the bullets from Nuri M., who offered weapons and ammunition freely in public Telegram groups for at least a year.
According to the broadcaster, under the pseudonym Rooie Leen, Nuri M. sold ammunition in a Telegram group managed by a homeless mental healthcare patient from Amsterdam. After identifying M.’s pseudonym, BNR tracked which public Telegram groups he belonged to and what messages he posted. This revealed his link with John S.
In 2022, S. shot and killed two young women at the Tro Tardi care farm in Alblasserdam on 6 May 2022. He himself had previously been a client of that same care farm. Two days earlier, he killed a 60-year-old shoemaker in Vlissingen. According to BNR, M. sold him the 9mm bullets he used to shoot the victims. S. was sentenced to 30 years in psychiatric detention for the murders.
M. was arrested in Amsterdam about a month after the murders at the care farm. The police found several firearms during a raid of his home. He sold firearms and ammunition on the Telegram group managed by the Amsterdam mental health patient for at least a year before his arrest, according to BNR. The last message he posted on Telegram was one day after the Alblasserdam murders.
A spokesperson for Telegram told the broadcaster that the sale of firearms on the platform is “explicitly prohibited” and that the platform proactively combats criminal trafficking. According to BNR, Telegram only took the arms trading group offline this year after BNR asked about it.
