Crime

Police arrested three men in a raid on a suspected crystal meth lab near the Gelderland village of Herwijnen early Saturday morning, the police have confirmed. The lab was raided by a specialized tactical team as the situation required, police said.

Police in Rotterdam discovered the body of a 58-year-old man in the city's 's-Gravenland neighborhood after a suspected shooting took place late Friday night, the police confirmed in a statement on Saturday.

Responding to a report of shots fired on the Clazina Kouwenbergzoom at around 10:15 p.m., police arrived at the scene to find the victim in a critically injured state. Attempts to resuscitate the man were to no avail, the police said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Issues concerning racism and other forms of discrimination should be tackled collectively, as a society, and not by the government alone, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday. Speaking at a press conference after convening with the cabinet, Rutte was taken to task on a number of issues around racial discrimination following a week of protest action in the Netherlands and abroad.

A man was hurt in a shooting on Dolomietenweide in Tilburg on Friday morning. The victim's 10-year-old son witnessed his father being shot, the Tilburg police said on Twitter. The police are looking for the perpetrator.

Witnesses called the police at 9:37 a.m. and reported that they heard gunshots and saw a man lying on the ground. The police are looking for a man in his mid-twenties with dark skin. He was wearing a black jacket and blue pants at the time and ran in the direction of Stappegoor, the police said.

Radio 10 DJ Lex Gaarthuis will not face prosecution for his role in writing a Carnival song in February called 'Prevention is better than the Chinese', the Public Prosecution Service confirmed on Thursday. The prosecutors determined that the song was meant to have been interpreted satirically, though it led to five people requesting charges be filed, and hundreds of discrimination reports.

The 29 telecommunications mast fires, all intentionally set since April, are not believed to be linked to the same criminal suspects, according to the police and the Public Prosecution Service (OM). The authorities also do not think the suspects were connected to one another or that they were organized by a single criminal group.

A 24-year-old man was arrested for working at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in Den Bosch as a nurse without having the proper qualifications to do so. "The suspect monitored patients and possibly administered them medication without having any qualifications to perform these actions," the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said on Thursday. The man is in custody on suspicion of fraud, forgery and theft.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested by police on Tuesday in connection with a May 1 arson attack targeting a transmission mast a short distance outside of Maasbree, a village in Limburg.

Police received several tips from the public after having alerted people on May 22 to the appearance of the suspect's car. Officers were then able to apprehend the suspect. According to the police, the man is currently being held at a local station, where he will be interrogated by authorities.

A police officer was arrested on Monday morning on suspicion of "committing crimes, including money laundering and the possession of narcotics", the police said in a statement. The officer is also suspected of serious dereliction of duty. 

The suspected officer worked in the Noord-Nederland unit. In addition to being arrested, the officer was also suspended. The investigation against them is ongoing.

"The police are not making any further announcements at this time."

A 25-year-old man from Zevenbergen was arrested by the police on Friday evening after plowing his car into two properties, causing damage to the residents' gardens.

The incident, which took place at around 09:20 p.m., prompted the two men who had been in the vehicle to flee the scene after crashing at high-speed on Arembergstraat near the center of the village. Nobody suffered an injury as a result the incident, the police have confirmed.

Researchers at Amsterdam UMC are now able to more accurately home in on the time of death of victims at a crime scene using a newly-developed technique, the hospital center announced on Saturday.

Currently, time of death is recorded with a margin of error of several hours, according to the researchers. Using the new technique, which combines temperature and weight measurements, the margin of error is reduced to under an hour.