Prosecution Loses Court Case against Hell’s Angels

The district court in Leeuwarden has judged that the Northcoast Chapter of the Hell’s Angels is not a criminal organization and can continue to exist. The prosecution had also lost this case in the lower court. The prosecution has already lost similar cases against other chapters.

www.trouw.nl/hetnieuws/nederland/article867954.ece
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More than 600 Diabetics Injected with the Same Needle

During the period August 2006-November 2007, more than 600 diabetics in the town of Almere were injected with the same hypodermic needle which should not have been used. A program has now begun to test to see if they were infected.

www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/2759402/
_Diabetici_kunnen_zich_komende_dagen_laten_testen__.html

Police Annoyed About Fining for Small Offenses

Gerrit van de Kamp, chairman of the police trade union ACP has said that policemen are annoyed about the obligation to fine people for small offenses. He added that policemen miss their preventive work and the freedom to take decisions themselves. He was reacting to a study by the Jansen and Janssen firm which found that in the past two years, a 100,000 fines had been given to people who were not carrying any valid identity document. Forty thousand of these had committed no other offense. Since 1 January 2005 everybody over the age of 14 has to show valid proof of identity if the police request it.

www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article852139
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Cab Drivers Attempt to Kill Amsterdam Municipal Inspectors

Municipal inspectors at the taxi stand at the Amsterdam Central Station complained three times in 2007 that cab drivers had tried to kill them, for instance by driving over them. On two other occasions they were threatened by drivers saying that they would run them over. One inspector was severely beaten. The inspectors are often threatened, cursed or spat at.

www.trouw.nl/laatstenieuws/laatstenieuws/article866994.ece/
Toezichthouders_bedreigd_door_taxichauffeurs

Aggression Desk for the Antisocial Unemployed

The Amsterdam service for Labor and Income is opening a special aggression desk for antisocial unemployed who have been prohibited to enter its offices. Tables and chairs are anchored to the floor, to prevent aggressive people from throwing them around. Special security people will be on hand. If an employee feels threatened he can, with a push of a button, close the window between him and the unemployed person being interviewed.

www.parool.nl/nieuws/2007/DEC/11/ams6.html

Former Foreign Minister Again Retracts his Words

Former Foreign Minister Ben Bot (Christian Democrats) has apologized to Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (Christian Democrats) for a recent interview in the NRC daily. In that interview Bot said that in 2005 the prime minister had forced him against his wish to retract his remarks that America’s invasion of Iraq had not been wise.

www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/politiek/print/
asp/artnr/183399/rss/true/index.html

Supreme Court: Smuggler’s Purchase Cost of Hashish Tax Deductible.

The High Court has decided that a condemned smuggler of drugs can deduct the 1.5 million Euro purchase cost of hashish from his taxable income because he was not condemned for trade in hashish, but only for smuggling it.

www.overgeld.nl/rubriek/belastingen/2744363/_Smokkelkosten_fiscaal_aftrekbaar__.html?view=print