Emergency services workers tackling incidents across the Netherlands were repeatedly assaulted during the New Year's Eve period, leaving dozens of police officers injured. Incidents reported in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and smaller cities involved police officers and fire fighters being pelted with powerful firecrackers. The police unions called for an immediate end to violence targeting emergency workers.
The Efteling theme park has taken extra safety measures on Wednesday after a car was driven through the attraction park via the main entrance a day earlier. An Efteling spokesperson confirmed this after a report from the Brabants Dagblad. There are now concrete blocks by the entrance, boulders by the entrance path, and extra poles installed to stop a repeat of the incident.
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The police evacuated six secondary schools of the Het Hooghuis school community in Oss and Heesch in Noord-Brabant on Monday over a bomb threat. It involves five locations in Oss and one in Heesch. Local media outlet DTV reported that the threat was sent from a student’s school email account. “We have spoken to the person who made the claim,” police said. “This shows that it is was a false alarm.” The threat was first observed by school personnel in the morning. The schools involved were evacuated as a precaution.