Footballer Quincy Promes's attorneys may question Belgian suspects about drug shipment

Lawyers for footballer Quincy Promes are allowed to question Belgian suspects about drug trafficking
Quincy Promes's lawyers are allowed to question four Belgian suspects about a shipment of 712 kilos of cocaine intended for the port of Antwerp that was intercepted by customs in January 2020. The court granted this request from the professional footballer's lawyers on Thursday.

Promes was sentenced to six years in prison in February by the court in Amsterdam for involvement in smuggling 712 and 650 kilos of cocaine. He is appealing this sentencing.

The court now allows the hearing of four witnesses who were arrested in Belgium for the same cocaine transport in which Promes had invested, according to the justice department. They are a driver who allegedly picked up the container, someone who reportedly gave him the order to do so, a port employee whose access pass for the port area was used, and a second driver who returned the container.

Promes's appeal also concerns a stabbing at a family party in Abcoude in July 2020 in which the footballer's cousin was stabbed in the knee. Promes was sentenced to 18 months in prison for this assault last year. The court rejected requests for additional witness statements from the victim, his sister, and a third eyewitness to the stabbing.

The court will treat both cases simultaneously, but it is not known when this will happen. Promes recently signed a contract with United FC Dubai, which plays in the second division of the United Arab Emirates league.

His lawyer recently said that Promes does not want to attend his appeal if he risks being arrested in the Netherlands.