Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] What was the Kamp van Zeist?
Date: May 18, 2001 @ 00:29
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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>From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>_________________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] What was the Kamp van Zeist?
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:33:16 -0000
>
>Following the Lockerbie bombing, the two suspects were eventually
>tried at the Kamp van Zeist location in the Netherlands. In many
>publications, it is said that for the duration of the trial, the Kamp
>van Zeist was declared Scottish territory. The mayors of the towns of
>Zeist and Soest, on which territory the Kamp is situated (and
>straddles the municipal boundary) didn't know at one stage which fire
>brigade should act in case of a fire breaking out during the trial,
>since they were under the impression that the territory of the camp
>was off limits for the municipal services, including the fire
>brigade. But in other publications I find that the trial was held
>on "neutral" territory. Does this mean Dutch territory, or
>truly "everones land"? Other publications say the Kamp was something
>like an embassy during the trial. The whole thing was well guarded by
>Scottish policemen, though. I didn't succeed in finding the
>Netherlands-UK agreement on holding the trial there yet.
>
>So was the Kamp van Zeist a Scottish enclave in the Netherlands for a
>short while? Or is this not true, and was it only a piece of the
>Netherlands that had Scottish law for a while?
>
>Peter S.
>