ONE DECEASED, TWO DEATH CERTIFICATES

Occasionally, small bits of the unrelenting truth seeped through in police file 2007170431. Page 288: ''the deceased is registered at the the City of Maastricht and the death certificate relating thereto has been added on page 295''.

Page 295, however, was missing when Kadija picked up the police file at her lawyer’s. Another death certificate came to the surface; “deceased in Eijsden”, signed by Mrs Huits-van Hooren, City employee and the cousin of one of the coroners, Roland van Hooren.

The main coroner is René Cardynaals. His autopsy report is a document, as it turned out, that couldn’t be verified by the man himself. He ”didn’t know his phone number could end up in a police file”, he says in a recorded interview. This is strange because at the bottom of the autopsy report his signature is placed right on top of that very number.

He is quite insistent that he didn’t give it away, because it’s mainly his private number. Then who wrote this autopsy report, typed on blank sheets of paper, no GGD or hospital logos?