Overview
- Coordinated searches at 17 addresses in Germany and the Netherlands uncovered a professional lab in Wolfenbüttel suspected of producing amphetamine-base, with a Dutch house in Groessen searched at Germany’s request and illegal fireworks removed by specialists.
- Investigators previously seized about 130 liters of amphetamine-base near the border, an amount police say could yield roughly 1.5 million doses worth tens of millions of euros.
- The police and FIOD arrested a 41-year-old from Barendrecht and a 39-year-old from Rotterdam on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering, seizing €30,000 in cash, a car, two Rolex watches and eight kilos of cannabis.
- In a separate weapons probe in Uddel, officers found more than 100 prohibited firearms with substantial ammunition; a second suspect, a 41-year-old from Weesp, was arrested as detectives examine possible trafficking links and past criminal use.
- Violent-crime investigations advanced with a 47-year-old man arrested in Bergheim, Germany, over the Rijswijk terrace killing as the Netherlands requests his extradition, two Nijmegen suspects detained in the Rotterdam homicide of a 24-year-old woman, three arrests after a reported abduction in Vlaardingen and an explosive attack in Rotterdam-Schiebroek under police investigation.