It was still unknown on Monday why a 28-year-old man in Ede allegedly took four employees of Café Petticoat as hostages for hours early on Saturday. The victims also said they do not know why this happened, the team at the Ede café wrote in a statement released on their behalf. The statement described the hostage taker as "a man unknown to them.”
The Rotterdam probation service has been testing a new stalker alarm keychain, AD reported on Friday. This device alerts the probation service when a stalker or domestic violence perpetrator comes too close.