The police arrested a 76-year-old man for trying to hit Mayor Boy Scholtze of Drimmelen in Noord-Brabant with his car on Monday morning as he walked from the town hall to his car. The mayor had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit, the police said. The man also shouted homophobic slurs at the gay Scholtze. Outgoing Minister of Justice Dilan Yeşilgöz called it “horrible” that Scholtze had been attacked. “In the Netherlands, you can be who you are and love who you want,” she wrote on X.
This Sunday marks one year since seven people were killed in the hamlet of Zuidzijde in Nieuw-Beijerland when a Spanish truck driver drove into attendees of a neighborhood festival. Relatives and others involved are gathering at a private event Saturday afternoon to remember the victims. Six adults died in the tragedy, including a heavily pregnant woman, bringing the death toll to seven.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) The death toll from a truck crash in the Netherlands rose to seven Wednesday as local authorities said an unborn child was also killed when the vehicle drove off a dike and slammed into a neighborhood barbecue over the weekend..
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