Overview

• Hans H. is on trial in Zwolle for the stabbing death of his ex-wife Tonnie, with the court hearing that she had told police she was terrified and reported breaches of a contact and house ban shortly before the attack.
• The judge rejected a defense request to delay proceedings to explore tbs with conditions, and the prosecutor indicated she will seek tbs with compulsory treatment.
• Amsterdam police have released recognisable images, with OM approval, to identify a suspect in a June sexual assault and attempted rape in Slotermeer and are asking for tips.
• Police publicly disputed Geert Wilders’ parliamentary account of an alleged Utrecht assault on a refuse worker, calling it a nuanced traffic dispute without a large group of bystanders and classifying the violence as simple assault on scene.
• Three people were arrested in Hoogezand after officers found about 1,600 kilograms of illegal fireworks and roughly 10,000 vapes during searches at multiple locations.