A gang who committed a series of violent armed robberies in the north-eastern corner of the Netherlands have been given jail sentences of up to 29 years. A 72-year-old man was shot dead in his home when the men broke in and demanded cash and […]
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Finance ministry research has found that youngsters and people with ethnic minority roots are more likely to experience discrimination at the hand of banks. In total, one in 10 people say they have experienced discrimination in their contact with financial institutions In particular, the “exaggerated” number […]
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Kélian Somon is a Cameroon-born French citizen who grew up near Paris. He now lives in Amsterdam, admires Dutch resilience and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro last summer to raise funds for charity. How did you end up in the Netherlands? During my studies in France, I […]
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Customs officers in the Netherlands found 70 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside the hold of a ship in Amsterdam harbor. The street value of the seized cocaine is €1.7 million, according to financial crimes investigation service FIOD. So far, nobody was arrested in connection with […]
drugs
“Results of the VAD school survey 2011-2012 show that the use of illicit psychoactive substances other than cannabis was rather limited in the population of school students (Melis, 2013). In the whole school population, only the older students mentioned ever use of these substances: 4.4% […]
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The police arrested a young man last week who was caught burying 750 grams of hash in city park Osdorp in Amsterdam. A passerby noticed the young man burying a bag under a pile of grass pollen and warned the police, the Amsterdam Nieuw-West Zuid […]
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