Overview

• The Public Prosecution Service says the boys were arrested this week and presented to an examining judge but is withholding details because they are minors and for investigative reasons.
• One suspect was ordered to remain in custody for fourteen days, while the other was placed under house arrest with an ankle monitor.
• Reporting indicates the teens were contacted via Telegram by a pro-Russian hacker and were asked to carry out tasks in The Hague.
• A father says his son walked past Europol, Eurojust and the Canadian embassy in August using a so-called wifi-sniffer to map or intercept nearby networks.
• Authorities say the arrests followed an AIVD alert, and Dutch media describe the case as possibly the first in which minors were recruited by a foreign power.