Author Tommy Weiringa praised in a meeting of Mayors,
Aldermen and officials, the terrorist attack on the daily De Telegraaf. He said they should have done it
earlier. This was met with great laughter,
despite the fact that many of the municipal officials have been threatened
themselves.
After a four year investigation, MEP Paul van Buitenen has
concluded that the public prosecutor deliberately misled the judiciary on the
firework disaster at SE Fireworks in Enschede on May 13, 2000. Van Buitenen’s report consists of 800
pages. He concluded that the public prosecutor
did not want the government to be blamed, partly for the explosion. As a result, 23 people were killed and 950
were injured. Van Buitenen also concluded
that the fire brigade fought the fire in violation of the regulations and hazard
statements. He also says that the National
Detective Service who investigated the government services, deliberately omitted
a number of issues from their investigation.
The number of
drunk teenagers being hospitalized rose in 2017. A researcher says that an alcohol induced
coma is like hitting a child on the head with a baseball bat. If you have been that drunk twice, the IQ
will drop 10 – 15 points. The figures
show that increasing the age when teenagers can buy alcohol from 16 to 18 has
not had an impact on the number of drunk teenagers.
German supermarkets
have removed tens of thousands of Dutch eggs because they were contaminated
with the toxic insecticide fipronil. It
concerns around 73 000 eggs from an organic chicken farmer in the
Netherlands. Some of the eggs were
already sold before the contamination was discovered. Last year, in the
Netherlands thousands of chickens and countless eggs had to be destroyed for
the same reason.
An investigation concluded that the Defense Ministry is
responsible for serious health complaints by employees of five NATO depots from
1984 to 2006. These employees were working with
chromium 6, a carcinogenic material.
According to the public health institute (RIVM), which undertook the investigation,
the Defense Ministry knew about the harmful effects of the substance but didn’t
share this knowledge with employees or with Ministry Doctors. After the report,
State Secretary Barbara Visser of Defense, apologized. She added that it happens too often that
Defense doesn’t adequately protect the safety of its employees. 
