The general meeting of 50PLUS at the Reehorst conference center in Ede on Saturday morning quickly degenerated into a dispute that required police intervention. One of the consequences was that the party was unable to elect a party leader for the November 22 parliament elections.
One person was seriously injured in a shooting incident at a café on Sint-Andriesstraat in the Feijenoord district of Rotterdam on Saturday night. The victim was taken to a hospital, the police reported. The Rotterdam police arrested six people in connection with the shooting. Four people were arrested in the café itself. Two others were in a car when they were arrested. According to the police, one of the suspects was also slightly injured in the shooting.
The number of times people were stopped and searched in Rotterdam last year almost tripled compared to a year earlier. In 2022, 11,443 people were stopped and searched. A year earlier, it was still 4,353, the office of mayor and aldermen wrote to the city council.
Two explosions took place in apartments in Rotterdam-Noord and Rotterdam-Feijenoord on Friday night. According to the police, no one was injured. The first explosion occurred around 02:45 a.m. in Jensiusstraat. After the explosion, a fire broke out on the second floor and flames burst out of the house, AD reported. Shortly after, the fire department arrived and extinguished the fire. Even though no one was injured, residents were examined by paramedics as a precaution.