Two dead, dozens injured as the Netherlands celebrates 2026 - DutchNews.nl
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The New Year festivities in the Netherlands have left two people dead, dozens with serious injuries and destroyed Amsterdam’s historic Vondelkerk church. Dozens of homes had to be evacuated because of the blaze, which send showers of cinders on to nearby properties. Others were left without power to allow fire officers to tackle the fire in the listed building, which is now used as a cultural centre. Rotterdam’s specialist eye hospital reports an particularly large number of young patients this...

The New Year festivities in the Netherlands have left two people dead, dozens with serious injuries and destroyed Amsterdam’s historic Vondelkerk church.

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    A 32-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman from Germany were arrested at a party centre in Beverwijk for firing guns into the air shortly after midnight. Other partygoers alerted the police.

    That’s the weirdest.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          They have plenty of guns, they just don’t go around murdering the fuck out of each other.

        • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Most of those shells, if not all, we’re most likely blanks. You can get a license to own a gun and blanks very easy in Germany

    • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I wonder if they were originally from somewhere around the middle east, like perhaps Turkey? Firing guns into the air during festivities seems commonplace there.

    • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      weirdest

      Attacking public services. (Medics, police, fireman etc) BY FAR!!

      They are out there instead of being with their loved ones for us. WHY attack them? Those morons must be punished to the absolute max.