Police investigate fire and sinking of yacht off Ameland
Peter Police have started an investigation after a yacht caught fire and sank 90 kilometres off the coast of…
CRIME
Government to stop funding βbed and boardβ for rejected refugees
The right-wing Dutch government is to stop funding any form of accommodation for asylum seekers who have been…
Drugs seized by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB)
Drugs seized by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), including about 2.8kg of heroin, from a residential unit at…
Dorian Petoku arrested: escaped Albanian narcos found in Dubai. He was a friend of βDiabolikβ
He was convicted of international drug trafficking in the βGrand Criminal Junctionβ trial. In December 2023, he had…
Dutch privacy watchdog fines Clearview β¬30.5m for database
The Dutch privacy watchdog AP has fined controversial American tech firm Clearview AI β¬30.5 million for building up…
Police wonβt end motorway blockade in early retirement protest
The police will not intervene during the Extinction Rebellion march from Arnhem to The Hague next month, as…
There were ten murders a month in the Netherlands last year
Last year 125 people were murdered in the Netherlands and men were twice as likely as women to…
Not answering the phone on days off should be a legal right: FNV
The FNV trade union federation has called on the cabinet to bring in legislation that will give workers…
Incidents involving fake police officers soar six-fold this year
The conman cop is on the rise in the Netherlands, with the real police receiving over 2,400 complaints…
The Netherlands puts organised crime banker in the dock
The trial starts on Thursday of a man accused of running the biggest underground banking network ever uncovered…