Overview
- Police arrested a 37-year-old man with no fixed address after an explosion at D66’s national office during a Jonge Democraten meeting, with attendees seeking victim support and party figures describing the device as a heavy illegal firework that police have not yet confirmed.
- Fire crews say the NorthC datacenter in Almere lost three floors that housed emergency generators, with recovery under way and industry and local leaders calling the blaze unprecedented and the cause bad luck as the operator works to bring servers back online next week.
- A truck and a delivery van burned at a petrol station by the A16 near Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, where loud blasts likely from gas tanks prompted lane and exit closures, air checks showed no hazardous substances, and traffic reopened after an hours-long cleanup.
- In Zoetermeer, firefighters were pelted with stones while tackling a large blaze in a vacant office building, the brigade will file criminal complaints, and police say arson is a serious line of inquiry.
- An 18-year-old from Groningen was left seriously injured in a shooting tied to a chase between two cars, police seized a black Peugeot, are seeking a black Fiat, and have made no arrests after briefly detaining uninvolved motorists at gunpoint.