Overview

• In court, judges heard that Tonnie phoned police shortly before she was fatally stabbed, saying she feared her estranged husband Hans H., who violated contact and location bans and has admitted the stabbing.
• The defense’s bid to pause the case to explore treatment under conditional TBS was rejected, and the prosecutor indicated she will seek TBS with compulsory treatment following psychiatric assessments.
• A businessman says he was abducted twice and tortured over a financial dispute, including sexual assault with a stick and a gun forced into his mouth; four suspects are in custody and substantive hearings are set for 1 December.
• An 18-year-old woman was stabbed in the leg by a passing cyclist on The Hague’s Prinsegracht; police issued an urgent witness appeal and released a description of the fleeing suspect.
• An overnight blast damaged a home’s entrance on Schulpweg in Rotterdam-Charlois with no injuries reported as investigators probe the explosion, and police publicly disputed Geert Wilders’ portrayal of a Utrecht garbage-collector incident, calling it a nuanced traffic dispute.