A selection of news and press releases in English published by the Public Prosecution Service.
The Roermond Public Prosecutions Department (OM) has started a criminal investigation into the facts after it received information from the Deetman committee. Reason for the investigation into the facts is the significantly higher number of deaths than normal in a former Roman Catholic institution in Heel. It concerns in total 34 boys under 18 who died in the years 1952, 1953 and 1954. The institution concerned was a boarding school with a social workshop for mentally handicapped.
On Tuesday morning 25 January 2011, police arrested five suspects on suspicion of laundering, forgery and selling necessities for hemp cultivation to foreign buyers, among others. Searches took place at 25 locations both inside and outside the Netherlands and various goods were seized.
Today, the Public Prosecution Service in Amsterdam (OM) has pronounced the final part of the closing speech in the trial against Geert Wilders. The OM has requested acquittal for inciting hate and inciting discrimination by Geert Wilders.
Today, the Public Prosecution Service in Amsterdam has pronounced the first part of the closing speech in the trial against Geert Wilders.
The attack on Queen’s Birthday was a one-man crusade of Karst T. for which he had made just a few preparations. Most probably he wanted to hit the coach of the Royal Family with his black Suzuki Swift.
Starting Monday 13 October, a Rwandese asylum seeker will stand trial before the District Court in The Hague on a charge of war crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994. The 40 year old Joseph M. applied for asylum in the Netherlands in 1998 and was living in Hilversum at the time of his arrest in August 2006.
Police forces and judicial authorities in the Netherlands, the United States of America, England, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain broke up a trafficking ring of minor asylum seekers from Nigeria today by arresting dozens of people and searching their premises.