Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Arrest
Arrest - Credit: Photo: Nomadsoul1/DepositPhotos
Crime
police
arrests
Beekse Bergen
Hilvarenbeek
Eemnes
rson
fire
psychiatric institution
Monday, 29 June 2020 - 13:30
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Suspect arrested for torching safari park, killing 10 animals

The police arrested a 25-year-old man from Eemnes over the weekend on suspicion of setting a fire in safari park Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek. Eight impalas and two kudu antelope were killed in the fire on March 26 after two animal enclosures were set on fire.

Beekse Bergen previously said the fire destroyed the outdoor cheetah enclosure, and the nilgai paddock. Police announced two weeks ago that an arsonist was to blame, and that they had identified a possible suspect.

The suspect could not be arrested immediately, because he was being treated at a psychiatric institution, the police said. He was arrested over the weekend, when he was discharged from the facility.

Police said he was in custody for questioning, and would have an arraignment hearing on Tuesday.

Earlier in the month, Hilvarenbeek Mayor Evert Weys said the fire was a "sad incident," calling the crime an apparent "one-time action from a disturbed person. I am relieved that the suspect was tracked down."

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Fatal Zwijndrecht mall shooting trial starting May 2024; Girlfriend still paralyzed
  • Dutch court upholds Schengen ban for British conspiracy theorist David Icke
  • €380,000 from Oranje World Cup auction hasn't reached migrant workers in Qatar
  • TU Delft ranks in top 50 on 2024 Times Higher Education list; Six Dutch unis in top 100
  • Netherlands home to nine wolf packs: 39 pups born this spring
  • Center-left coalition set to take control of The Hague City Council

Top stories

  • TU Delft ranks in top 50 on 2024 Times Higher Education list; Six Dutch unis in top 100
  • Social housing rents could increase 5.8% next year; 4.9% increase in free sector
  • VVD under fire for pulling support for asylum distribution law
  • State Sec. orders NS to reconsider rush hour charge, seek alternatives
  • Bus and taxi collide in Friesland, injuring 14 adults & children; 4 critically hurt
  • Dutch Senate rejects Work from Home bill by a single vote

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content