One man fell to his death from a ninth-floor balcony and three others were injured when they tried to avoid arrest during a police raid on their homes in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer district.
Police found large quantities of hard drugs during raids on apartments. A total of twelve men have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the drug trade.
Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen wants the city’s police department to document which youths in the Diamond neighborhood are involved in crime or cause a public nuisance.
Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool in recent days has published a series of reports documenting that the neighborhood’s former street hooligans and petty criminals have evolved into a group of hardcore criminal youths.
The Netherlands National Criminal Investigation Service (Nationale Recherche) has arrested a 48-year-old woman in Amsterdam on suspicion of involvement with a hoax bomb threat last March.
In an anonymous phone call on March 11 to Amsterdam police the woman claimed to have information about an upcoming terrorist attack against several stores in South-East Amsterdam.
The municipality of Amsterdam has taken an important step in its fight against the degradation of Damrak.
It is withdrawing the operating permits of restaurants and hotels belonging to the controversial Barazani family, on suspicion of money laundering.
Often referred to by locals as the ‘kosher mafia,’ the Israeli family operates a number of hotels and restaurants.
According to police, the two brothers — both in their early twenties — are part of the Piet Mondriaan gang, a group of criminal youth from the Piet Mondriaan street and its immediate neighborhood.
The two have been living in the Netherlands for about 15 years, but have never applied for Dutch passports. Recently the brothers failed to renew their residence permits on time. Authorities say that means they are in the Netherlands illegally.
Police in Amsterdam has for the first time patrolled a public transport bus while they were wearing civilian clothes instead of their uniforms.
Nineteen school children were apprehended for misbehavior, including threats against fellow passengers.
Over the past year Holland has seen a wave of attacks against public transport workers.
An Irish drug dealer whose remains have been found in an Amsterdam canal had fled Ireland to avoid imprisonment and to escape gang members who held him responsible for revealing information that led to discovery of their drugs factory.
Amsterdam police found his remains three weeks ago in the water near Diemerzeedijk.
The body of Keith Ennis (30), from Clondalkin, Dublin, had been dismembered and stuffed into bags, suitcases and trash bags.