A couple who were arrested at Schiphol airport after they walked out of a quarantine hotel are demanding €50,000 in damages for being deprived of their freedom. Lawyer Bart Maes told the Volkskrant that he would also be asking the public prosecutor’s office to bring charges against the mayor of Haarlemmermeer, Marianne Schuurmans, who issued the quarantine order on the …
Most of the passengers who tested positive for coronavirus after flying in to the Netherlands from South Africa last week have been allowed to leave their quarantine hotel. A total of 61 people tested positive for coronavirus after arriving from Cape Town and Johannesburg last Friday afternoon, hours after the Dutch government tightened travel restrictions in response to the emergence …