Drugs

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Security guards working during the Amsterdam Canal Pride Parade on 5 Aug. 2023.
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Aggressive incidents rampant in top amateur football, affecting 80% of clubs
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Dutch authorities seized 1,200 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas from Colombia at the port of Vlissingen on Aug. 8, 2025.
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Customs seized nearly 24,500 kg of cocaine last year; Sharp rise in illegal tobacco
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An evening shot of a Lidl supermarket
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Narcotics found between fruit at two Lidl supermarkets in Noord-Brabant
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€340,000 cash, drugs and weapons seized in Zutphen after suspected drug deal in park. May 2026
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€340,000 cash, drugs, and weapons seized in Zutphen after suspected drug deal in park
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King's Day festivities in Amsterdam
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Amsterdam struggling to shake image that "anything goes" on King’s Day
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Selling drugs
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Groningen launches campaign to keep children aged 10–14 out of drug trade
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Police officers
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Police break up "chaotic" house party in Utrecht with 100 teens
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Arrest: Police officer handcuffing a suspect with a police car in the background
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Man arrested in Vlissingen after fleeing police with gun, drugs, and knife
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Crime scene tape and a police car, with police officers in the background
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Driver and bystander arrested in Vlissingen after crash; Police find drugs and knife
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Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
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Dutch researchers hid ties to weight-loss drug maker while advocating obesity measures
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Dutch police station.
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Frontal collision in Lierop: car driver tests positive for drugs
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Police officer with police cars in the background
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Dozens arrested for driving under influence at Final Ground Zero festival in Bussloo
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Music festival
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First aid workers warn of rising drug use risks at Dutch festivals
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A person under arrest
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Dutch man arrested in Ibiza after police find €16,000 in party drugs meant for sale
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Sink made out of four kilos of MDMA found by police officers in Zwijndrecht on Thursday, March 13 2025.
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Dutch police find 4 kilogram “sink” made entirely of MDMA in drug bust
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An area cordoned off by police
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Suspect arrested for explosion in house in Meppel, residents cannot return home
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An area cordoned off by police
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House facade in Meppel blown off by explosion, suspect on the run
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Pills
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Deadly drug nitazene found in the Netherlands for the first time
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Crime scene tape and a police car, with police officers in the background
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About 10,000 liters of illegal drug chemicals were dumped in one Amsterdam neighborhood
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A small bag with several grams of the designer drug, 3-Methylmethcathinone, better known as 3-MMC, alongside a euro note used to snort a line off a mirror. October 2021
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More "at risk" young people using designer drug 3-MMC despite 2021 ban
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Photos of the very high-strength ecstasy pill is in circulation released by the Trimbos Institute on 8 December 2023.
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Life-threatening XTC pill with high doses of MDMA in circulation in the Netherlands
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The 40-cm knife found outside Schiphol Airport during a check by the Koninklijke Marechaussee on 26 September 2023.
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Two teenagers arrested for weapon possession at Schiphol Airport last weekend
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Ecstasy pills
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Utrecht dance festival accused of promoting drug use in social media post
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Ecstasy pills
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Poppi Drugs Museum Amsterdam wants to launch a mobile "XTC store"