Surgeon Caused Death of Patients

The Scheper hospital in Emmer has admitted that in 2008 and 2009 six patients died after surgery for stomach reduction by one of their surgeons. In the meantime family members of the victims have put up a website where others can give information about complications in operations carried out by this surgeon. So far information on forty such cases have been forthcoming.
www.trouw.nl/nieuws/nederland/article2747956.ece/Meer_missers_gemeld_bij_lotgenotengroep_Emmen.html

Activists Climb Building in Protest against Food Retailer

The environmental organization Milieudefensie has undertaken a protest campaign against the large Dutch food retailer Albert Heijn. They accuse the company of selling meat from animals which were fed soy grown on land obtained by cutting down forests in Latin America. The Netherlands is the second largest importer of soy in the world. As part of the protest, two Alpinists climbed the building where the Albert Heijn company was holding a meeting.www.trouw.nl/nieuws/nederland/article2744031.ece/Actievoerders_tegen_AH_beklimmen_Muziekgebouw.html

Politicians Interfere Too Much in Amsterdam Airport Matters

Jos Nijhuis, the new head of the Schiphol Group which operates Amsterdam airport, has said that politicians are increasingly interfering in the management of the airport. In order to abolish the environmental ticket tax on 1 July, the government has made it a condition that the airport lower its fees. Nijhuis said that due to the reduction in the number of passengers, fees should actually increase by 20% but will be kept stable. Lowering the fees would affect the competitive position of the airport.
www.parool.nl/parool/nl/30/ECONOMIE/article/detail/239169/2009/04/25/Politici-bemoeien-zich-te-veel-met-Schiphol.dhtml

Twenty-two People Arrested During Soccer Championship Festivities

Twenty-two people were arrested in Alkmaar during the festivities for the local soccer club AZ, which won the Dutch championship. They were arrested for vandalism, insults, disturbance of public order, throwing fireworks and general poor behavior. One person was wounded by the fireworks. The police thinks that the festivities went very well.
www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2224928.ece/Politie_verricht_22_aanhoudingen_rond_huldiging_AZ

Violence against Child Care Workers Increases Rapidly

Janny Nab, director of the William Schrikker Group (WSG), says that violence against child care workers is increasing rapidly. The WSG group cares for 8,000 children placed with them by the child protection authorities or judges. Nab says that some child care workers have been locked in closets, their children are identified on the Internet, their cars have been damaged and there have been regular threats of stabbing. In earlier cases ambulance workers, firemen, bus drivers and train personnel had complained about increased aggression against them.
www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/3787291/__Blijf_met_je_handen_van_ons_af__.html

Dutch Intelligence Service Broke Rules in Investigation

The supervisory commission of the intelligence and security services (CITVD) has concluded that the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) has broken the rules in its investigation of Fup Goudswaard, the former head of the regional police in the province of Zeeland. This included a secret recording of a conversation with him.www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article1187681.ece/AIVD_schond_regels_in_onderzoek_politiebaas

The Hague: Investigation of Muslim Boarding Schools

The Hague municipal councilor Else van Dijk-Staats of the VVD (Liberals) claims that there are at least three boarding schools in The Hague which have contacts with the Islamic preacher Fethulla Gülen. She says that youngsters at these schools are isolated and indoctrinated. The municipal council has adopted a motion to investigate whether these schools actually promote such radical ideas. Alderman Rabin Baldewsingh (Labor Party) said that the municipality knows nothing about such organizations, but will investigate the addresses it has received.
www.trouw.nl/nieuws/religie-filosofie/article2740273.ece/Onderzoek_naar_mogelijke_Haagse_islaminternaten.html