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Judges punish ‘foreign looking’ criminals harder
Dutch judges are five times more likely to send a criminal to jail if the suspect has a foreign appearance, researchers from Leiden University found out. That likelihood increases to 20 times if the...
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Anti-piracy group caught pirating (surprise!)
Composer Melchior Rietveld won a court case against copyright collection agency Stemra last week over music he wrote for an anti-piracy ad. TorrentFreak writes: In 2006, Dutch musician Melchior...
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Copper thief electrocutes himself
Last Friday a man accidentally electrocuted himself in an abandoned building on Mierloseweg in Helmond, Noord-Brabant, the police believe. Friday morning a citizen told the police that there was a fire...
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Our robotic overlords have lost their fining privileges, Leeuwarden court...
The Dutch state can no longer fine motorists automatically for lacking insurance, Volkskrant reported on Saturday. An enterprising judge in Leeuwarden wanted to know the name of prolific civil servant...
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Two billion euro in gold? Nah, keep it!
Dutchnews wrote yesterday: “The Netherlands has no plans to try to recover 60,000 kilos of Dutch gold stolen by the Nazis during WWII and sold on to Switzerland, finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem...
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Rabobank kills book containing accusations of art theft
The court of The Hague has rushed to the aid of Dutch bank Rabobank when it censored the book ‘De Verpanding’ (The Pawning) last Friday. The book, subtitled ‘Art Disappears Where Rabo Appears’,...
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Dutch kids report Mexican drug lord to police – but it’s not him!
Three children reported a man to the police that they believed might be the escaped Mexican criminal Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. The three had spotted a man with a moustache sitting in a van on a...
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Council member is his own worst enemy
Bram Heijstek has had a rough year. The council member of the municipality of Aalsmeer has been on the receiving end of several death threats that were allegedly signed by a colourful coalition of...
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Crime still pays for many Dutch fugitives
According to RTL Nieuws, dozens of criminals in the Netherlands with an outstanding prison sentence wrongly continue to receive benefits. Although the justice department and police cannot find them,...
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Dutch art detective retrieves stolen Picasso after 20 years
A Dutch “art detective” from Amsterdam called Arthur Brand has managed to lay his hands on Buste de Femme (Dora Maar), a painting that was lost since 1999, The Guardian reported yesterday. On 14 March...
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