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Authorities face scrutiny over allowing a convict-led escort agency to operate
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Authorities face scrutiny over allowing a convict-led escort agency to operate

NL Times  

Dutch authorities are under fire for failing to take action against Tilburg-based escort agency Nirvana, despite years of alleged exploitation of sex workers and evidence of fraudulent activities. Van de Laar, who founded Nirvana in 1996, was sentenced in Belgium to four years in prison, with two years suspended, for exploiting escort workers. “It is clear Margretha had no respect …

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Tilburg escort agency granted license despite human trafficking conviction
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tilburg escort agency granted license despite human trafficking conviction

NL Times  

The municipality of Tilburg has issued a permit to Nirvana, a controversial escort agency whose founder was convicted in Belgium for human trafficking and exploitation, according to an investigation by Pointer. André van Dorst, a representative of the industry’s advocacy group, expressed astonishment, stating that owners with criminal records typically fail the screening process mandated by the Wet Bibob law, …

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Podcast: The Great Cultural Breakdown Edition
1 year, 1 month ago

Podcast: The Great Cultural Breakdown Edition

Dutch News  

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces? The Brabant city is also the scene of some surreal footballing scenes as the orange Lionesses edge out the white ones in the Nations League. The Dutch government is taken to court over its supply of fighter jet parts to Israel, while the Red …

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Podcast: The Great Cultural Breakdown Edition
1 year, 1 month ago

Podcast: The Great Cultural Breakdown Edition

Dutch News  

Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces? The Brabant city is also the scene of some surreal footballing scenes as the orange Lionesses edge out the white ones in the Nations League. The Dutch government is taken to court over its supply of fighter jet parts to Israel, while the Red …

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Green mamba alert continues in Tilburg after escape
1 year, 1 month ago

Green mamba alert continues in Tilburg after escape

Dutch News  

A highly poisonous green mamba which escaped from its enclosure at a home in Tilburg on Monday still hasn’t been found, local council officials have said. The owner of the two-metre-long green mamba said the snake may be hiding in a warm place inside the house at Goudenregenstraat but experts, helped by a specially trained dog, are also searching a …

Dutch researcher wins Ig Nobel Award for international study into bored students
1 year, 3 months ago

Dutch researcher wins Ig Nobel Award for international study into bored students

NL Times  

Dutch researcher Wijnand van Tilburg has won an Ig Nobel award for his part in an international study into the boredom of teachers and students. The study “Boredom Begets Boredom” concluded that students or teachers expecting a lecture or class to be boring can actually make it even more boring for them. The results indicated that “the mere expectation that …

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Tilburg, Breda to start selling regulated cannabis this fall as "start-up" to experiment
1 year, 10 months ago

Tilburg, Breda to start selling regulated cannabis this fall as "start-up" to experiment

NL Times  

Coffeeshops in Tilburg and Breda could start selling regulated cannabis this autumn, Minister Ernst Kuipers announced in parliament. The Cabinet decided to go with a “start-up phase” to get the regulated cannabis experiment going, NOS reports. The start-up phase in Tilburg and Breda should last six months, after which the government hopes to expand it to the other eight municipalities …

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Blood, feces on the stairs, broken windows: Students feel unsafe in Tilburg flat
1 year, 10 months ago

Blood, feces on the stairs, broken windows: Students feel unsafe in Tilburg flat

NL Times  

The residents of the TalentSquare student flat in Tilburg feel increasingly unsafe in their homes. According to them, homeless people have been sleeping in their hallways for at least two years, often leaving feces, trash, and sometimes even blood behind. It was just replaced, but that new window is already damaged again.” Homeless people using the corridors for shelter also …

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Woman, 18, collapses and dies at music festival near Tilburg; Police investigating
2 years, 1 month ago

Woman, 18, collapses and dies at music festival near Tilburg; Police investigating

NL Times  

An 18-year-old attending a music festival in Haaren died on Saturday evening after falling ill. Police said the woman became unwell at the event site at about 8 p.m. The medical team at the Rebellion event, and other emergency services workers attempted to revive her, but she died at the scene, police said. ”Uniformed officers spoke to a number of …

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Man, 37, shot dead in Tilburg neighborhood
2 years, 5 months ago

Man, 37, shot dead in Tilburg neighborhood

NL Times  

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed on Borselestraat in Tilburg during the early hours of Tuesday morning. The man had a criminal record, a spokesperson for the police said to ANP. He was gunned down as he arrived home at around 1:45 a.m., Omroep Brabant reports. I called the emergency services.” Another local was woken by police sirens at …

Scooter rider stabs helpful pedestrian in Tilburg
2 years, 6 months ago

Scooter rider stabs helpful pedestrian in Tilburg

NL Times  

Authorities are looking for a scooter rider who stabbed a man on the Langendijk in Tilburg early Sunday morning. The scooter rider also tried to stab someone on the Reeshofdijk around the same time, according to the police. According to the police, the driver of the scooter –– a young man around 20 years old –– stabbed the helpful pedestrian …

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Christian parents seldom educate their children on sex
2 years, 7 months ago

Christian parents seldom educate their children on sex

NL Times  

A survey by the Nederlands Dagblad shows that many Christian parents and guardians do not talk to their children about sex. A majority of Christian students surveyed said that they had never or rarely spoken to their parents about topics like preventing STDs, sending nude photos or how to set boundaries around sex. “The explanation for these figures is probably …

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Woman's hair set on fire in Tilburg bus
2 years, 8 months ago

Woman's hair set on fire in Tilburg bus

NL Times  

A woman with a lighter set another woman's hair on fire in a Tilburg bus on Thursday. The 22-year-old victim was left with scorched marks on her scalp and coat, along with a sore upper arm from where the perpetrator punched her, according to the police. Police arrested a 37-year-old woman from Tilburg as a suspect following the incident, which …

Woman Tilburg
Why we snap-judge some people as 'boring'
2 years, 8 months ago

Why we snap-judge some people as 'boring'

BBC  

Why we snap-judge some people as 'boring' Getty Why do people with certain professions and interests make us yawn – even before we get to know them? People judge those who match ‘boring’ stereotypes harshly, considering them less competent and warm than the average person, and unfairly shunning them in social interactions – before they have even opened their mouths. …

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Disruption caused by teenagers with fake weapon at Tilburg hospital
2 years, 9 months ago

Disruption caused by teenagers with fake weapon at Tilburg hospital

NL Times  

Four teenagers caused a disruption at the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg on Friday afternoon by making a photo documentary with a pellet gun, a fake firearm similar to an Airsoft gun. After receiving a report of young people with a firearm, police units approached the site with bulletproof vests and drawn weapons. According to the police, the young people’s statements …

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One killed, two hurt in Tilburg house fire
2 years, 10 months ago

One killed, two hurt in Tilburg house fire

NL Times  

One person was killed and two others were injured in a house fire on Bieslookweg in Tilburg on Tuesday morning, local media reported. One area resident told broadcast outlet Omroep Brabant that the tenants are unrelated, and the daughter of the landlord said they are from Somalia and are not related. "It seems likely that he died from the fire, …

Tilburg commemorates two years of coronavirus in the Netherlands
2 years, 10 months ago

Tilburg commemorates two years of coronavirus in the Netherlands

NL Times  

Tilburg will look back on two years of coronavirus in the Netherlands on Sunday. King's Commissioner of North Brabant Ina Adema and Tilburg Mayor Theo Weterings will reflect on the consequences of the virus in Brabant in a digital broadcast. Exactly two years ago, on Feb. 27, 2020, the first coronavirus case in the Netherlands was confirmed. The then-Minister of …

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Half of neighborhoods in large Dutch cities don't have enough green space
2 years, 10 months ago

Half of neighborhoods in large Dutch cities don't have enough green space

NL Times  

In over half of the Netherlands' largest 32 municipalities neighborhoods, there is too little space for public greenery, environmental organization Natuur & Milieu concluded in a study. 53 percent of the 1,937 neighborhoods studied do not meet the criterion of 75 square meters of green space per home and are, therefore, "petrified," according to the environmental organization. First was the …

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Nightclub demonstration ends peacefully; venue in Tilburg fined
2 years, 10 months ago

Nightclub demonstration ends peacefully; venue in Tilburg fined

NL Times  

Nightclubs opened in violation of Covid measures Saturday night in a protest that was largely peaceful. "We know that we are sold out…and we can receive a lot of happy people,” said Pieter de Kroon, owner of the Chicago Social Club in Amsterdam. The municipality of Amsterdam warned in advance that nightclubs that stayed open after 10 p.m. would be …

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Coronavirus lockdowns keeping burglars away, except in Tilburg
3 years ago

Coronavirus lockdowns keeping burglars away, except in Tilburg

NL Times  

Burglars have struck 21,619 times in the Netherlands so far this year, a 23 percent decline from the year before, according to insurance company Interpolis. In total, the insurer expects 22,500 burglaries this year, which would be a record low as measured by the company’s Burglary Barometer. Overall, the number of burglaries in the country started rising again in the …

Coronavirus Lockdown Burglaries Fell
Tilburg police to use drones to track fireworks ban violators
3 years, 1 month ago

Tilburg police to use drones to track fireworks ban violators

NL Times  

The police in Tilburg will enlist the help of a drone to scope out where heavy firework is being used. We need to catch people in the act of setting off fireworks to confront them," a police spokesperson from the Zeeland-West-Brabant unit told the Brabantse Dagblad. While in 2017, there will only be ten operational drones in the police force, …

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3,700 kilograms of illegal fireworks found in Tilburg
3 years, 3 months ago

3,700 kilograms of illegal fireworks found in Tilburg

NL Times  

During an undercover operation last Thursday, the police found 3,700 kilograms of fireworks at a building on Hultenseweg in Tilburg. While being observed, two men opened one of the containers and lifted cardboard boxes into the cargo area of the stolen truck. The boxes contained 3,700 kilograms of fireworks, including dangerous fireworks like shells and cakes, a piece of fireworks …

Fireworks Tilburg
Syrian boy found all alone at Tilburg train station
3 years, 3 months ago

Syrian boy found all alone at Tilburg train station

NL Times  

NS Security Service employees found a 13-year-old boy from Syria all alone at Tilburg station on Sunday evening. "During our shift, we were standing at the Albert Heijn To Go when a little boy walked up to us. We asked him what was going on, but unfortunately we couldn't make contact because of language barrier," the employees said. "The little …

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Another explosive found at Polish supermarket in Beverwijk
3 years, 6 months ago

Another explosive found at Polish supermarket in Beverwijk

NL Times  

The Polish supermarket in Beverhof shopping center in Beverwijk was again the target of an attack. A possible explosive was found at the supermarket early on Monday morning. Items that could indicate an explosive were found at the scene, a police spokesperson said to NOS. A Polish supermarket in Rotterdam was the target of two drive-by shootings in March.

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