This is a list of major crimes that happened in the Netherlands. The crimes are divided per month.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands, commonly known as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy with the large majority of its territory in Western Europe and with several small island territories in the Caribbean Sea, in the West Indies islands.
Total incidents: 22
| Date | Location | Type of crime | Dead | Injured | Details | Victim(s) | Perpetrator(s) | Motive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Rozenburg, South Holland | Shooting | 0 | 0 | In the night from Sunday to Monday multiple shots were fired at an elderly complex in Rozenburg. A resident was almost hit in the head by a bullet. No one is arrested yet. [1] | Residents of an elderly complex | Unknown | Drug fight (suspected) [2] |
| 2 | Willemstad, Curaçao | Shooting, assassination | 1 | 0 | A known criminal from Amsterdam has been shot dead by two attackers while he was sitting in his parked car. The victim had survived an attack on his life the previous month when he was shot in Almere. At the time of his death he was on holliday with his girlfriend. [3] [4] | 23-year-old Genciël Feller from Amsterdam. It's believed that he and other criminals stole hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Surinamese criminal Piet Wortel. [5] | 2 unknown persons, hired by Piet Wortel (suspected) | Revenge for the stolen cocaine (suspected) |
| 3 | Amsterdam, North Holland | Stabbing | 1 | 1 | Two persons had been stabbed by two attackers in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. Both victims became injured, one died the next day in a hospital. Two suspects were arrested four days later. They reported themselves to the police. [6] | 18-year-old Jay-Ronne Grootfaam a.k.a. rapper RS (TrappyDemon). He was active as a Drill rapper. [7] | 18-year-old man and 20-year-old man, both from Amsterdam. [8] | Unknown |
| 4 | Willemstad, Curaçao | Stabbing | 1 | 0 | A man was stabbed to death during an argument following a car crash with two cars. The attacker fled the scene, later that day he reported himself to the police. [9] | 37-year-old Roberto Jose Cathalina from Colombia. | 31-year-old man. [10] | Traffic hassle |
| 6 | Amsterdam, North Holland | Cyberattack | 0 | 0 | A DDoS attack on the Wikipedia servers in Amsterdam caused the website to be offline in several countries, mostly in Europe. This was the first time Wikipedia was successfully taken down by an attack. A suspect was arrested, but it's unknown if this is the same person as the one who claimed responsibility. [11] [12] [13] | Wikipedia users | UKDrillas, they took credit for an attack against World of Warcraft too. | Unknown |
| 7 | Raamsdonksveer, North Brabant | Shooting | 0 | 1 | A man has been shot in front of his own house, when he walked from his car to his frontdoor. He was only injured in his hand. The shooter escaped on foot. [14] | Unknown man from Raamsdonksveer | Unknown man | Unknown |
| 8 | Geervliet, South Holland | Shooting | 0 | 1 | A man was shot in his house when he opened the door after the shooter rang the doorbell. The victim was hit in his chest and leg. The shooter escaped, but was arrested the next day. [15] [16] | 38-year-old man from The Hague | 34-year-old man from Vledder | Unknown |
| 9 | Bergen, North Holland | Beating up | 0 | 1 | Journalist and politician Jan Roos has been beaten up in front of his own house. [17] [18] | Jan Roos | A kickboxer hired by a drugdealer from Bergen | A letter about the drugdealer was posted online. The drugdealer believed Jan Roos was the writer of the letter, but he isn't. |
| 9 | Rotterdam, South Holland | Stabbing | 1 | 0 | A man was stabbed in his chest by another man on the platform of Capelsebrug metro station. The victim tried to travel without a ticket. The victim and the perpetrator came in a disagreement about this, what followed in the stabbing. The stabber was arrested later. [19] [20] | 20-year-old Wesley from Lekkerkerk | 20-year-old man from Rotterdam | Disagreement about travelling without a ticket. |
| 9 | Dordrecht, South Holland | Shooting | 4 | 0 | A policeman killed his wife and two daughters in their own house before killing himself. The couple were separating, but still lived together. [21] [22] | 27-year-old Maryori, 12-year-old Nicolle and 8-year-old Naiomy | 35-year-old policeman Wendell C. | Family drama |
| 11 | Ermelo, Gelderland | Unknown | 1 | 0 | A woman was found dead inside her home in the evening. Her husband was arrested the same day. The cause of death is unknown. Earlier in the evening the woman called the police, because she felt unsafe. [23] [24] | 57-year-old Anna Marie den Toom-Kamphuis | 61-year-old Freek den Toom | Unknown |
| 11 | Haarlem, North Holland | Arson | 1 | 0 | A man set his pregnant wife on fire in her sleeping room. The man was arrested further down the street as he watched his home burn down. [25] [26] | Unknown woman | 44-year-old man of Afghan descent [27] | Unknown |
| 14 | Haarlem, North Holland | Stabbing | 0 | 3 | Two people became injured in a stabbing. A policeman was injured in the arrest of a suspect. The two victims and three other persons were arrested. [28] | 42-year-old man from Amsterdam, a 45-year-old man from Almere and a policeman | 34-year-old woman from Haarlem, 32-year-old man from Leiden and a 38-year-old man from Amsterdam | Unknown |
| 15 | Leende, North Brabant | Vehicular attack | 0 | 5 | A man drove his car deliberately into the audience of an autocross during the awards ceremony. Five people became injured and were hospitalized. [29] [30] | 14-year-old boy, three men aged 33, 44 and 50 and a 35-year-old woman | 21-year-old man from Reuver | The race of the attacker was cancelled. A fight broke out when the man didn't got his money back. |
| 15 | Breda, North Brabant | Stabbing | 0 | 3 | A fight broke out between a group of teenagers and a man in a park. The man stabbed tree teenagers and ran off. He was arrested later. [31] | Two boys and a girl aged 15 and 16 | 30-year-old man from Breda | Unknown |
| 16 | The Hague, South Holland | Abuse | 1 | 0 | An older man has been abused by a group of young boys after they got in a fight. The victim died an hour later of a heart attack. Five suspects were arrested, but where released a week later. [32] [33] | 71-year-old Nico Schoonhoven | Five boys aged 13, 14 and 15 | Unknown |
| 17 | The Hague, South Holland | Stabbing | 1 | 1 | During a Turkish funeral, a brother in law stabbed a cousin of the deceased to death and injured an other man. The attacker fled and is not arrested yet. [34] [35] | 44-year-old man from The Hague (died) and a 36-year-old man (injured) | Man of Turkish heritage, around 50-years-old and bald with black facial hair | Family feud |
| 18 | Amsterdam, North Holland | Shooting, assassination | 1 | 0 | A lawyer in a high-profile case against a drug gang, the Marengo-proces, has been shot to death by a unknown man. He was the lawyer of Nabil Bakkali, a crown witness in the case against the gang (nicknamed Mocro Maffia) led by Ridouan Taghi. The brother of Bakkali was shot dead in 2018, because of him becoming the crown witness. [36] [37] | Derk Wiersum | Unknown man, hired by Ridouan Taghi | Warning against Nabil Bakkali |
| 18 | Amsterdam, North Holland | Shooting, assassination | 1 | 0 | A former professional football player, and a friend of the two weeks before killed Genciël Feller, has been shot to death while driving in his car by two men on a motorcycle. [38] [4] [5] | Kelvin Maynard, at the time of his death playing for Alphense Boys | Two unknown men, hired by Piet Wortel (suspected) | Revenge for the stolen cocaine (suspected) |
| 18 | Rotterdam, South Holland | Drug trafficking | 0 | 0 | 450 kilograms of cocaine were intercepted by the Dutch customs in the Port of Rotterdam. The coke was hiden in a container with bags of steel grit. The container came from Brazil. [39] | Unknown | Drug trafficking | |
| 22 | Zwolle, Overijssel | Shooting | 0 | 1 | A man has been shot with an automatic gun while he was sitting in his car near his home by an unknown person on a scooter. The victim is a suspected drug criminal, he only wounded his shoulder. [40] [41] [42] | Afghan born Idris M. | Unknown | Attempted assassination related to drugs (suspected) |
| 24 | Rotterdam, South Holland | Drug trafficking | 0 | 0 | 186 kilograms of cocaine were intercepted by the Dutch customs in the Port of Rotterdam. The coke was hiden in a container with bananas. The container came from Colombia. [43] | Unknown | Drug trafficking | |
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