An English criminal is possibly responsible for the murder of a couple in Amsterdam in 2017. The police announced this on Tuesday night in the show Opsporing Verzocht. Officers found the bodies of Piet Hoovers and his Thai wife Tae on Monday, July 17, in a home on the Ceintuurbaan after they were warned by friends and family of the couple. They were worried because they couldn't reach the two.
Two men were arrested on Tuesday for their possible involvement in a shooting incident at a gym on Druivenstraat in Breda, last December, the police said. Several gunshots were fired at a car that a Polish professional kickboxer and his sparring partner had just entered.The AD reported earlier that one of the victims was top-level kickboxer Arkadiusz Wrzosek. He and his training partner were left unharmed. The bullets flew through the car and the windows of the gym.
Investigators had a breakthrough in a robbery-homicide case dating back over 23 years. The police arrested a 50-year-old man from Doetinchem on Tuesday morning for the fatal shooting of Tonny ter Horst in the Achterhoek on 9 October 2000.
The television program Opsporing Verzocht brought attention on Tuesday evening to a January 2023 shooting at a home in Antwerp in which an 11-year-old girl named Firdaous was killed, and three of her family members were hurt. The victim who died was the daughter of Othman El Ballouti. The Antwerp-born man is suspected of running a global cocaine trafficking and money laundering operation using the Antwerp port, while possibly residing in downtown Dubai, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said last year based on information from Belgium and Interpol.