Skip to main content
Netherlands News in English

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Vandalism
- Credit: Source:Wikimedia?Accedie
Crime
apprehended
bribe
children vandals
excrement
feces
fire-extinguishers
Kerkrade
Limburg
mine museum
museum
photos
vandalism
Tuesday, 6 May 2014 - 07:50

Share this article:

9, 11 year old kids destroy museum

Four children aged between 9 and 11 years destroyed a mine museum in Kerkrade, Limburg on Saturday. According to a police spokesperson, the young vandals were apprehended, and contact was made with their parents. The kids vandalized photos that were 100 years old, pulled fire-extinguishers from the walls and hurled these through windows, they started fire and smeared excrement along the walls, Dagblad de Limburger reports. A curator who happened to be passing by managed to catch one of them, a 10-year old boy. The boy was promised €100 if he would give the names of his accomplices. Which he did. He did not, however, receive his bribe. Because the children are underage, they will not be prosecuted. Only children above the age 0f 12 are allowed to be punished by law.

More like this

Image
The Dom Tower at night in Utrecht
Utrecht dethrones Noord-Holland as province with highest property values; Up 10.3% in NL
Image
Gino van der Straeten went missing in Kerkrade on June 1, 2022.
Second victim lashes out at suspect in abduction, murder of 9-year-old; Relatives angry
Image
Smoke rises above a large wildfire near ’t Harde. 29 April 2026
Wildfire risk rises as heat drives up drought pressure across the Netherlands
Image
People swimming in Amsterdam. June 20, 2026.
KNMI ends code orange overnight, warns of storms and 27–32°C heat Sunday and Monday
Make NL Times your top Google source

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Hundreds of thousands of Dutch use Ozempic to lose weight; Third without prescription
  • Controversial FVD-affiliated school reopens with state funding confirmed
  • Record variable electricity prices forecast for Wednesday evening in Netherlands
  • Netherlands under code orange as record heat intensity levels recorded in Eindhoven
  • Rijkswaterstaat extends nationwide heat measures, postpones A12 roadworks

Top stories

  • Six arrested in electoral fraud investigation; Allegations of forgery, voter coercion
  • Hottest night on Dutch records expected tomorrow; Code Orange takes effect at noon
  • 270 children abducted to or from the Netherlands last year; Increase of over 25%
  • Public transport strike from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.: No trains, buses, trams, metros running
  • Life sentence sought for Dutch-Rwandan man over massacre of 3,000 Tutsi in 1994 genocide

© 2012-2026, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Change Privacy Settings
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • Partner Content