Overview
- The Zwarte Cross suspended all remaining megastunts after two professional performers were injured in katapult jumps on Thursday and Friday, leaving no fit stunt personnel to continue the shows.
- Freerunner Jim van Nes was taken to hospital with a concussion after a hard landing and was discharged the next day, while Laurent Arrabito suffered an injured but not broken ankle when he landed awkwardly.
- Festival organisers and the municipality of Oost Gelre say the katapult was months‑long tested and permitted and that no technical defect has been identified, but officials emphasised that residual risk cannot be fully eliminated for such extreme stunts.
- In The Hague a working, unusually large drug lab was found in a residential building with thousands of litres of chemicals, triggering phased evacuations of around 150 people, deployment of LFO and SEON teams, and the arrest of four suspects.
- Specialist teams continued decontamination, pumping and forensic work into the weekend with neighbours allowed to return in phases, and authorities warned the scale of the haul will prolong investigation and removal operations.