Safety / Incidents

A fire broke out in a flat in Arnhem on Friday evening. The flat had been vacated and boarded up earlier in the day. Squatters lived there. As far as we know, no one was injured.

A 29-year-old woman was found dead in the water on the Amsteldijk in Amsterdam this morning. She died as a result of a crime, police say. The woman had been missing since October 4. Her family reported her missing to the police on October 5.

The Dutch industry association for the cloud and internet sector, Dutch Cloud Community (DCC), has great concerns about a server that the police seized this week in Amsterdam East. That seizure was at the request of the US authorities. It concerns a server of the Italian anti-capitalist and anti-fascist internet service provider Autistici/Inventati (A/I), which was located at the Amsterdam Science Park.

Rapper Appa has been found guilty of harassment of a Jewish woman and a journalist from the NOS. He did this by 'doxing' them, or sharing their personal information publicly. The 43-year-old rapper receives forty hours of community service, half of which are conditional with a probationary period of two years. Earlier, the Public Prosecution Service had demanded sixty hours of community service.

Fires, accidents, traffic jams, delays and short news reports: with this live blog you can closely follow 112 news and other short news in Friesland.

The police have arrested a man from Roosendaal who is suspected of shooting another man in the eye. The 44-year-old man was arrested last night by the Special Interventions Service, which is used for suspects with firearms. The victim was found on Wednesday evening in a house on Hoogstraat in Roosendaal. He had been shot in the face, probably with a gas gun.

Maintenance work is underway on the railway line between Leeuwarden and Groningen. Meanwhile, a major fire in a warehouse in Een-West has been brought under control. This live blog tracks emergency service updates and short news across Friesland.

A large fire broke out in a parking garage on Theodoor van Hoytemastraat in Amsterdam Nieuw-West around 2:45 am. At least 55 homes above the parking garage had to be evacuated, reports the Amsterdam-Amstelland Safety Region. The fire is now under control. A lot of smoke was released: The residents were taken care of in a hotel nearby.

Good morning! Today, the government will let you know which infrastructure projects will receive funding in the coming years and which will not. And in Brussels, the EU summit will start on the second day. Among other things, there is talk of support for Ukraine.

The number of reports of labour exploitation increased last year, says the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children in her annual report. This concerns in particular the exploitation of personnel in the catering industry and in agriculture. "The number of victims of labour exploitation that came into the picture increased by 13 percent compared to the year before," says National Rapporteur Conny Rijken. "In the hospitality industry, it's about a doubling the number of reports, with agriculture and fisheries almost tripling."