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This morning, an overturned microcar was found on the Burgemeester Falkenaweg in Heerenveen. The vehicle reportedly hit a lamppost first and had been lying there since early morning, but the driver was no longer at the scene. Additionally, a scooter caught fire in a tunnel in Leeuwarden.
On Wednesday night, a scooter caught fire in a tunnel near Europaplein in Leeuwarden. The fire department quickly arrived around 2:15 AM to extinguish the flames. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remains unknown.
In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the fire department responded to a burning scooter in a tunnel near Europaplein in Leeuwarden. No injuries were reported in the incident. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.
Scooter on fire in tunnel in Leeuwarden The fire brigade came into action last night for a burning scooter in a tunnel on Europaplein in Leeuwarden. There are no reports of injuries or other persons involved in the incident.
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During the extinguishing of the fire in Dinxperlo in Gelderland on Monday evening, PFAS ended up in the sewage water. This is reported by the municipality of Aalten, which includes Dinxperlo. A pile of wood and pruning waste was on fire at a waste processor. The extinguishing water came from a contaminated recreational pond and was largely discharged via the sewer.
Was it a fateful concurrence of circumstances, or did officers use too much force during Alfredo Goeloe's arrest? Relatives of the 51-year-old Rotterdammer, who died a week and a half ago when he was arrested, are still full of questions on the day of his departure. To pay a final tribute to Gulu, some two hundred people joined a funeral procession today. His body was dressed in a white hearse, drawn by two white horses, transferred to the South Cemetery.
A week after the major rail sabotage on Prinsjesdag, not much is clear about the perpetrators. The police and Public Prosecutor's Office make no statements about the ongoing investigation and no one has claimed the action. Rail operator ProRail thinks that drones could help to increase the chance of being caught in the future. ProRail has about 300 cameras at level crossings and another 6000 at stations.
A house on Jan de Baenstraat in Leeuwarden has been closed for three months by order of the mayor because of the discovery of a hemp nursery. On 10 July, the police raided the house, after an anonymous report. On the spot, they found a hemp nursery with 524 hemp plants, spread over different grow rooms. It has already happened 23 times this year that a home in Leeuwarden was closed due to a drug discovery.
A 48-year-old Amsterdam municipal official is sentenced to twelve years in prison if it is up to the Public Prosecutor's Office. He is suspected of corruption, computer intrusion and complicity in serious incidents of violence. Justice is also demanding ten years in prison against two 'information brokers' to whom the suspect would have passed on information. The official would have more than 600 unlawful personal and address details in nine months requested in the systems of the municipality of Amsterdam, the Public Prosecution Service writes.
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