Suspect in Syrian woman's disappearance may have been banned from Netherlands last year
Omar Alhamad, the 34-year-old man wanted in connection with a 24-year-old woman’s disappearance in Almere last week, may have been banned from the Netherlands in 2024, the Telegraaf reports. The police fear for the woman’s life and are urgently searching for her and Alhamad.
The State Secretary of Justice and Security issued a two-year entry ban against a man with the same name and birth year as Alhamad on March 12, 2024. According to the official announcement in the Staatscourant, the government’s gazette, the man left the European Union at that time.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice and Security would not tell the Telegraaf whether it is the same man, saying that they “cannot provide substantive information on individual cases.” The Midden-Nederland police also declined to comment.
The 24-year-old Syrian woman disappeared from Almere on Thursday, August 7. She was last seen near the Albert Heijn supermarket on Oliveir van Noorstraat. The police believe she got into a car with Alhamad around 10:00 a.m.
Alhamad usually drives a gray Peugeot 307SW station wagon with the license plate 36-LH-RN, but the police stressed that he may have been using a different car.
Several sources told the Telegraaf that the man may have fled across the border, some say to Germany, others say that he went to his native Syria.
