The charge on the grounds of which Swedish prosecutors have put Maarten's name
on the international wanted list is: participation in a violent riot ('våldsam
uplopp') and the commission of violence against a police officer.

Swedish prosecutors have released a so-called 'promemoria' containing the
eyewitness reports that the case is based on. From this it would appear that
there are a number of witnesses to the deed that Maarten is accused of. The
first is the police officer that was supposedly struck on the head. However, he
did not see the person who supposedly did it. The second eyewitness is another
police officer. He describes a situation in which a man climbs up on the
containers with a large stick in his hands and strikes his co-worker with it.
The officer then pushes the person off of the containers and yells that he has
to be arrested for violence against a police officer. The eyewitness describes
the person who dealt the blow. This person, according to him, has blue jeans on
(Maarten had black trousers on), and spiky hair (Maarten was bald). He did a
photo line-up, with 8 photos (see attached photos) in which the photo of Maarten
(copied from his passport) is significantly different from the other photos. The
quality is less, the picture is spotty and in the upper-right corner letters can
be seen (NL). He indicates that it probably must be number 7 (Maarten), but also
indicates that he does not know for sure and further says that the person had
more hair than on the photo at the moment that it happened (Maarten was, as
said, shaved bald).

Then there are two more eyewitnesses who supposedly arrested Maarten after it
was called out that he was guilty of striking an officer, and who brought him to
the arrestee transporter. One of them wrote a note with the data from Maarten's
passport himself. The other knows little more about the situation, except that
the arrested person was big and has half-long hair. The fifth and last
eyewitness can only state that the suspect was not a certain other Dutchman,
because he had already arrested that one earlier in the day. That has little to
do with the case, then.

If we compare this story with the video footage that there is of Maarten
standing on the containers, it immediately becomes clear that something went
wrong. It can be seen in the video that Maarten does not satisfy any of the
various (and rather divergent) personal descriptions that have been given, and
furthermore that he did not have a stick in his hands. It can also be seen that
Maarten stays out of the way of the police officers on the container and is only
busy helping other people up onto the containers. He is easy-going and reserved,
and when a police officer walks up to him and gestures (and probably orders) him
to come down to the side where he climbed up onto the containers, he turns
around and appears to be following the order. It can also be seen that when he
turns to let himself down, he gets a push in his back and falls off of the
container. In the video, it can be furthermore seen that the incident (the
striking of a police officer with a large stick) in any case did not take place
around the time that Maarten was standing on the containers.

What's more, there is not a chance that the video footage is from another time
that he would have climbed up onto the containers. Four eyewitnesses, out of
whom two were standing inside and two outside the containers, corroborate
Maarten's story. The two who were on the inside of the containers indicate that
they remember walking up to the containers with Maarten, that he climbed up onto
the containers and helped people, subsequently fell off and was arrested, and
therefore did not climb up again. The people outside the containers, as well,
confirm that Maarten has only been up on the containers once and that he only
helped other people there. One of the eyewitnesses sat together with Maarten on
the bus there and paid close attention to him, she stood the entire time waiting
to see if any acquaintances would come over the containers. The other is a
photographer who was taking photos of what was happening on the containers, he
remembers the person Maarten, because he was helping people, that he did not
climb up onto the containers a second time and that no police officer was hit on
the head in the time that Maarten was standing on the containers.