Police in the Netherlands used an armored battering vehicle Monday night to smash through the closed gates of a paper recycling company in Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant. No reason for the heavy response was given by authorities, leaving the recycling firm owner mystified.
It turns out that police were tracking a sea container delivered to a warehouse at the Van Puijfelik paper company from Antwerp, Belgium. Authorities said they used a helicopter and a drone to support the operation.
Two suspected robbers from Tilburg did something surprising on Monday in the village of Galder, North Brabant. They expressed their regret for committing a burglary of the Bijl Groentechniek garden center, and brought the stolen garden tools back with a bouquet of flowers.
Sniffer dogs will be used to detect network failures In North Brabant and Limburg for Netherlands energy provider Enexis by the end of 2015, the company announced last week.
For the third time in since late December a PVV party official resigned from the party. Jan Kerkhoff, a provincial parliamentarian in North-Brabant, dropped out of the regional section of PVV because of his dissatisfaction with the party line and his dissatisfaction with party leader Anti-Islamist Geert Wilders.
The Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has issued a code orange for extreme weather in North and South Holland as well as North Brabant and Utrecht. The rain and thunderstorms in these areas can be very disruptive and even dangerous. Overnight, a lot of rain fell across the country, and more bad weather is expected for the rest of the day.
A man was seriously injured after being stabbed on Friday evening in a small North Brabant town.
