A 33-year-old woman died at a hospital Monday night after she was was stabbed on a parking lot outside the daycare center she owned and operated at Dr. H. Colijnstraat in Amsterdam.
A number of witnesses who may have seen the killer before or after the murder have contacted Amsterdam police.
The number of coffeeshops in Amsterdam’s Red Light District will be reduced by 34 percent over the next 3-6 years.
The closures are meant to make a dent in the estimated €21 – 42 million in un-taxed, yearly profits made by organized crime syndicates that officials have documented as being involved on the supply side.
The proposed measure, expected to be accepted by the Amsterdam City Council, is part of a large-scale project to clean up and repurpose Amsterdam’s city center.
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.