Amsterdam does not permit renting one’s home out for more
than 60 days per year. A new study shows that at least 6,000 illegal Air
B&B rentals of homes and rooms to tourists do not comply with the towns
rules. The Amsterdam Housing alderman Laurens
Ivens said: “I want to prevent our homes
being hijacked and people making a lot of money from it.” The Amsterdam municipality is implementing the
obligatory listing of renting of homes out to tourists. From 2018, if people do
not comply, they will be fined up to 6000 Euros.
On Sunday night, powerful fireworks
were thrown by a number of people at a moving train in Amsterdam. When the train was hit, it caused a loud
noise. The train driver was so shook up
that he did not complete his route. This
was made public by the train infrastructure organization ProRail. They said that this is extremely dangerous
because the train driver in such a situation may miss a signal. Later that same evening, more heavy
fireworks were thrown at a moving train in Den Bosch.
Saleh Ali, who vandalized a kosher restaurant was freed
after bieng held by the for two days. When he
came before a court, it was decided that he should be subjected to a psychiatric
examination, thus he will be free for a few more months. Though the authorities
have withheld this information, it became known that the attacker is a
Palestinian from Syria with combat experience who was an asylum seeker in the
Netherlands. Dutch officials do not consider the clearly antisemitic attack as
a hate crime. As a major contrast this past summer, the Dutch police held a
Dutch Jew Michael Jacobs for a week as he stood repeatedly near anti-Israeli demonstrators while wearing an Israeli flag. There are no laws prohibiting this.
Two Turkish Dutchmen Anil S from Amsterdam, and Burak A.
from Eindhoven have been arrested in Athens together with 7 other Turks as part
of a plot to assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during his recent
visit to Greece’s capital. According to Greek media, they belong to the extreme
left DHKP-C, a Marxist Leninist terrorist organization. Both Turkish Dutchmen had been added to the
Dutch terror watch list in the summer of 2017. Their bank accounts have been
frozen. 
According to the Prosecution, an eighteen year old Muslim
convert by the name of Aisha, planned an attack on a public building in the
Netherlands. She is also suspected of participating in the terrorist
organization IS and planning a terrorist crime.
She had been arrested a number of times in the past. She underwent an investigation by the Dutch
Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (NIFP). According to the
Prosecution, she gave answers that the experts wanted to hear, i.e. socially
desirable answers. The Prosecution is requesting a 30 month jail sentence of
which 24 months would be suspended. They
are also requesting that she should be forbidden from having internet access. 
The Belgian TV program Canvas was devoted to children of
collaborators (with the Nazis). Jan
Tollenaere, a former Professor at Utrecht University said in the program that “Jews
are profiteers, parasites and ugly people.”
He described himself as an anti-semite. His father, Reimond Tollenaere recruited
during the war for the Waffen-SS. The Forum
of Jewish Organizations has protested against the fact that the TV program was
given a podium to promote his father’s thoughts. The University of Utrecht distanced itself
from Tollenaere’s statement. It said
that the Professor retired in 2015 and "no longer uses the universities
facilities and is not invited to any academic reunions.”
The man who attacked a Jewish restaurant in
Amsterdam last Thursday is a 29 year old asylum seeker from Syria. He revealed that he received training in
the use of weapons in Syria as well as experience in fighting. When asked by the police whether he was willing
to use violence again he initially said yes.
Later, he explained that he would not do that in the Netherlands. According
to a newspaper report the attacker has been living in Amsterdam for several years. Two
days after the took place, he was released according to the
recommendation of the police.
The Dutch Police detective department have no capacity to investigate
Turkish heroin criminals in the Netherlands.
The priority of the service is fighting mainly synthetic drugs such as
cocaine. This, despite the often violent
methods of the heroin criminals, which includes killings – wrong targets,
blackmailing, use of heavy weapons and kidnappings. The result is that a huge
flood of heroin dominates the Dutch market while the criminals have little to
fear. This information was found in an
internal police report of which data was published by the AD Daily.
Reinier van Dantzig is the faction leader in the Amsterdam
municipal council of the left liberal D66 party – a member of the Dutch government
coalition. After the anti-semitic attack by a Palestinian who smashed the door
and windows of an Amsterdam Jewish restaurant, van Dantzig tweeted “how awful
that this happened. It shows how thoughtless statements by the leader of the
free world have direct consequences. Let
us show clearly that there is no room for intolerance in Amsterdam!”
A man with a club has destroyed the windows of a Jewish
restaurant in Amsterdam. A witness said the
man shouted: “Palestine and Allah Akbar” during this act. He has since been arrested.
The Dutch ProRail infrastructure company has to pay a
penalty of 50,000 Euro for leaving trains with chlorine at the Amersfoort
station. The judge said that the company
hadn’t met safety regulations. The
prosecution requested a penalty of 150,000 Euro. It called the company a “recidivist” of letting
dangerous train wagons filled with chlorine stand at night in populated areas without
informing the authorities.
For many years the battle about black Pete has been on going
in Dutch society. Around 200 people demonstrated
against this folklore figure in the town of Dokkum. The Chairman of the ACP Police Union, Gerrit
van de Kamp estimated the cost of the police presence between 350 000 and 500
000 Euros. He added that these are hours
that cannot be spent on other business. He came under criticism by politicians
who said that democratic rights should not be considered as a financial burden,
because everyone has the right to demonstrate and be protected.
Three former members of the Motor Club No Surrender,
have told the police and the press about the criminal practices of the
organization. The management of the club
enriches itself by cancelling membership of some which it then extorts. Also debts of members are cashed in from
family and friends. A number of members
have filed a complaint with the prosecution which is planning a prohibition of
the club. One of the members said that
every criminal can become a member of the Motor Club even without a driver’s
license. About himself, he said: “I was interesting because of my contacts in
the world of drugs. They hoped to obtain
through me larger quantities at lower pricing.”
