The public prosecution department is to look again at the possibility of banning the paedophile association Stichting Martijn, a spokesman told news agency ANP on Tuesday evening.

Earlier this year, the department said there were no grounds to ban or prosecute the organisation even though a number of members had convictions for child abuse.
On Tuesday, Martijn’s chairman Ad van den Berg was sentenced to three years in jail for possessing a massive amount of child pornography. This, according to newspaper reports on Wednesday, may hasten the organisation’s decline.
Under the EU’s Treaty of Lanzarote, such organisations can be made illegal if their leaders have been found guilty of child sex offences, ANP says.