US EditionJudges refuse to release footballer Quincy Promes ahead of drug smuggling, assault cases
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Footballer Quincy Promes will remain in custody until his next hearing in a maximum of three months. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has decided this. The court rejected requests to lift or suspend his pre-trial detention.
AMSTERDAM — The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday (today) that Quincy Promes, a footballer of Surinamese origin, will remain in prison for an extended period. He has been sentenced to a total of 7.5 years in prison: in 2023, he received one and a half years for stabbing his cousin and a year later, six years for involvement in drug trafficking. Promes has appealed these two sentences. Tuesday's hearing was part of this appeal and was aimed…
Judges refuse to release footballer Quincy Promes ahead of drug smuggling, assault cases
Dutch footballer Quincy Promes was denied bond on Tuesday, and will remain in prison at least until the next status hearing in his appeal on convictions related to cocaine trafficking and the stabbing of his cousin. Promes was convicted in both cases in absentia, after refusing to fly back to the Netherlands for either case, but has been in custody since July after officials in the United Arab Emirates agreed to his extradition.
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