Mohammed Bouyeri (Arabic: محمد بويري Muḥammad Būyiri; born 8 March 1978) is a Moroccan-Dutch terrorist serving a life sentence without parole at the Nieuw Vosseveld prison for the 2004 murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh.

He was a havo student, while many Moroccan youth in the Netherlands would only advance to lower vmbo education, including most of Bouyeri's class.

[2] In summer 2000, Bouyeri, alongside some other men, stormed the school's cafe and began a fight with the other patrons, deliberately attacking the Dutch people present.

[2] Bouyeri campaigned for the opening of a youth center in the secondary school, but this plan was rejected by the authorities.

[2] After his mother died in 2002 and his father remarried in 2003, he started to live according to strict interpretations of Sunni Islamic Sharia law.

He frequently visited the El Tawheed Mosque where he met other radical Sunnis, among whom was the suspected terrorist Samir Azzouz.

[7] Filmmaker Theo van Gogh was an often polemic critic of several aspects and figures of Dutch society, including religion.

[8] In 2004, van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who had become a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, directed a short film called Submission, Part I about Islam and violence against women.

Wounded, van Gogh ran to the other side of the road and fell to the ground in the cycle lane.

[11] The note was primarily addressed to Ali, calling her a heretic and a willing collaborator of "Zionists and Crusaders", saying she would be destroyed.

[14] Following an exchange of gunfire with police, during which he was wounded with a shot to his leg, Bouyeri was arrested close to the scene of the crime shortly after its commission.

[19] The publishing of Bouyeri's photograph was personally approved by justice minister Piet Hein Donner.

[19] Bouyeri's trial took place over two days, 11 and 12 July 2005, in a high-security building in Amsterdam's Osdorp neighbourhood.

In a letter on 8 July, Bouyeri announced that he would not attend the trial voluntarily and that he did not accept the court's jurisdiction.

[21] At the trial, Bouyeri expressed no remorse for the murder he admitted to having committed, telling van Gogh's mother, "I do not feel your pain.

Unlike other European countries, life imprisonment carries no chance of parole in the Netherlands, with the only possibility for release being via a pardon by the reigning monarch.

[26] In 2017, Bouyeri barricaded himself in his jail's kitchen while threatening prison staff by saying that whoever forbade him from praying would get "a dagger between the ribs".

[27] In 2018, he relayed a hand-written book to politicians through a courrier criticizing Richard Dawkins and inviting them to convert to Islam.