A nine-year-old boy threatened a six-year-old child with a knife on a playground in The Hague on Wednesday. Officers arrived quickly and seized the weapon. The six-year-old boy was unharmed. The police and the mother of the nine-year-old boy “spoke well to the child”, the police write on Facebook on Friday. Because he is under … Read more
30 Jun 2023 at 09:15 NS CEO Wouter Koolmees urgently calls on the government to combat aggression against NS personnel. Railway employees are increasingly confronted with this. Koolmees wants the responsible ministries to take action. NS staff will be confronted with aggression more often in 2022, the NS announced in February. The transport company reported … Read more
30 June 2023 at 08:00 The cooperating churches in the Netherlands confess guilt on Friday evening about the role the churches played during slavery. They do this during a memorial service in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. They then name the suffering inflicted on the enslaved people in the colonies. In addition, they express the … Read more
Jun 29, 2023 at 10:34 PMUpdate: 5 hours ago The coalition in the municipality of The Hague fell on Thursday evening. The VVD has ended its cooperation with D66, CDA, PvdA and GroenLinks. This happened after a troubled council meeting. The reason for the split is the way in which the coalition should deal with … Read more
More than three months after the elections, all 21 water boards have a new executive board. The Water Board of Schieland and Krimpenerwaard was the last to appoint a board on Thursday. The board there consists of representatives of Water Naturally, VVD, PvdA and the combined Onbouw and Natuurterreinen fractions. All water boards had to … Read more
The police turned out en masse on Tuesday after a report about “camouflaged people with weapons” in Gelderland. But it turned out to be an exercise by the Airmobile Brigade, writes Broadcasting Gelderland Thursday. The police received a report from Meddo, a village near Winterswijk, on Tuesday evening. There were armed people in camouflage clothing … Read more
Jun 29, 2023 at 2:03 PM Update: an hour ago A seventeen-year-old boy received fourteen months of juvenile detention and youth TBS on Thursday for stabbing a fourteen-year-old boy in Hoorn. The victim died in hospital a few days later. The two argued over a clothing swap. The victim wanted his pants back, but the … Read more
There are only a few hundred people at the farmer’s protest of Farmers Defense Force in The Hague at the beginning of the afternoon on Thursday. The action group expected “many thousands”, but there is no question of a full Malieveld. There are also no tractors to be seen on the Malieveld. There are still … Read more
The destroyed glass monument for cancer patients in Dronten is being rebuilt. KWF reported this on Thursday. The crowdfunding that the relatives of cancer patients have set up has raised the required amount in no time. Nearly all of the memorial’s 67 glass plaques were smashed two weeks ago, possibly with a hammer. The plaques … Read more
A power failure at Zaandam station has a major impact on train traffic in North Holland on Thursday. There is currently no train traffic to and from Zaandam at all. Fewer trains are also running around Amsterdam for the time being. For example, according to the NS, fewer trains are running on busy routes such … Read more