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The Dutch diplomat who helped capture serial killer Charles Sobhraj has revealed how difficult it was seeing the killer living a life of luxury after being released from prison in India. Sobhraj, known as The Serpent, whose story was recently revisited in the BBC series of the same name, drugged and killed at least a dozen Westerners … Read more
Woman is left with a fractured skull after police blast her in the head with a water cannon and send her flying into a wall during Dutch lockdown riots – even though ‘she was not protesting’ Denisa Stastna needed 15 stitches after taking a blast from a water cannon Czech national claimed she was filming … Read more
Europe’s battle against coronavirus entered a dangerous new phase this week as politicians pushed to tighten lockdown measures across the continent even after a weekend of rioting brought scenes of chaos to the Netherlands and Denmark amid warnings of ‘civil war’. France is due to decide whether to bring in a third national lockdown this … Read more
Youths torched a Dutch Covid testing centre and an effigy of the Danish Prime Minister was set alight in fiery anti-lockdown protests sweeping across Europe. The testing facility in the village of Urk in the Netherlands went up in flames on Saturday night with its burnt-out shell remaining cordoned off on Sunday. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, … Read more
Dutch PM Mark Rutte and his entire cabinet resigned today over a child benefits scandal in which thousands of families were wrongly accused of fraud. Rutte accepted responsibility after as many as 26,000 innocent parents were left in financial ruin after being wrongly forced to pay back tens of thousands of euros in a scandal … Read more
Dutch port officials have paraded a stash of British food that was seized at the EU border under new Brexit rules – amid anger at ‘nit-picking’ border police for seizing a trucker’s ham sandwiches. The Dutch customs office showed off a pile of confiscated items including a carton of juice, a box of oranges, a … Read more
Dutch port officials have made headlines for mocking a trucker as they seized his ham sandwiches under Brexit rules– but criminals are having the last laugh as they use the country’s shipping terminals to smuggle drugs worth billions of pounds every year. Famously tolerant of cannabis use, the Netherlands is also a seen as a … Read more
A Dutch police officer has been filmed laughing at a British truck driver as the officials confiscated his ham sandwiches due to new post-Brexit import rules. ‘Welcome to the Brexit, sir,’ one of the officers is heard saying in the video of the incident, as the driver asks: ‘Can you take the meat and leave … Read more
He’s known for accumulating an arsenal of ink. But not one of his many tattoos were visible as Justin Bieber boxed his way through new, Rocky-inspired music video for Anyone with Zoey Deutch. The 26-year-old pop prince looked in fighting shape as he recreated scenes from the classic Sylvester Stallone movie with Zoey starring as … Read more
The Netherlands will go into a tough second lockdown, with the closure of all schools and shops for at least five weeks, in a government-led push to fight the coronavirus, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday. ‘The Netherlands is closing down,’ he said to the sound of protesters banging pots and pans outside his … Read more