Highlights
Crash of a small Norwegian airplane in Callandkanaal was a tragic accident
Rotterdam - The police have completed the investigation into the Norwegian plane that crashed into the Callandkanaal in Rotterdam (NL) on 5 June 2022. The Aviation Supervision Team of the Netherlands Police’s Central Unit concludes that it is highly likely that the crash was the result of a tragic accident, in which the bad weather possibly played a role. Both persons on board, a 58-year-old Norwegian man and his 15-year-old son were killed.
Requested: help in the search for victims of the Shashdarak prison
Driebergen - Afghanistan - The International Crimes Team of the Netherlands Police, are again investigating war crimes committed in Afghanistan between 1984 and 1992, this time focussing on a different detention facility: the KhaD’s Shashdarak prison. To achieve this, we need your help.
Alleged militia member associated with Syrian regime arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of war crimes
Kerkrade - The International Crimes Team of the Netherlands Police arrested a 34-year-old man in Kerkrade on Tuesday 24 May 2022 on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria in 2013. The suspect had been living in the Netherlands since 2020 and had applied for asylum there. At the end of 2020 the national crime squad received tips that the man would have been a member of a prominent Syrian militia that fought on the side of President Assad's regime in the Syrian civil war. Never before has anyone been arrested under these suspicions in the Netherlands who allegedly sided with the Syrian regime.