Overview
- An investigating magistrate in Groningen ordered the pair to remain in custody for the next fourteen days.
- The detainees are an 18-year-old man and a minor, both residents of Bedum.
- Sporthal De Vlijt was destroyed in a New Year’s Eve fire that police say appears to be deliberate.
- Social-media video is part of the evidence under review and has reinforced the arson suspicion, according to officials.
- In about two weeks the magistrate will consider a possible 90-day extension of pretrial detention, and police say further arrests are not excluded.