After huge interest for the first Dutch prohibited dinner, now a last prohibited dinner is organised somewhere in The Netherlands. A secret dinner set-up by food-lovers and experimental ‘chefs de cuisine’. The forbidden dinner is a protest against clean and safe cooking and eating. All… Read More
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Year: 2000
In 1975 and 1977 Dutch Moluccans hijacked trains and a school many people were taken hostage. At the time the hijackers were fighting for their own state. The hijackings ended with shelling by the a special assistance unit, followed by a violent assault by the… Read More
Because the Dutch Lower house is debating a law proposal to legalise euthanasia a reporter from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen travels to the Netherlands to film for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau. In the reportage Herbert Cohen, a family doctor… Read More
After 58 dead bodies of Chinese immigrants were found in a lorry in the port town of Dover, United Kingdom on 18 June 2000, reporter Michael Heussen travels to the Netherlands to film for a reportage about the smuggling of Chinese people to England for… Read More
Doctors in The Netherlands help thousands of people to die each year. Because the Dutch Lower house discusses a law proposal to legalise euthanasia under strict conditions, a BBC reporter travels to the Netherlands to film for a reportage about euthanasia. The mother of Nelleke… Read More
After the son of the Peerbooms family had an accident with his motor bike he ends up in a hospital. Sadly enough he stays in a coma and after a while the responsible doctor suggests that it is maybe better to carry out euthanasia. The… Read More
In a large-scale joint operation, Italian and Russian police have arrested 11 members (eight Italians and three Russians) of an international child pornography network that traded videos of violence, torture and murder of children on the internet. The videos were sold to customers in Germany,… Read More
A few months after the disastrous explosions at the firework factory in Enschede, the local football club FC Twente organises a benefit match against the German football club Werder Bremen for the victims and the surviving relatives. The right moment for Europe correspondent Ingeborg Haffert… Read More
During the European Football championships 2000 the Netherlands and their football fans turn completely orange. The Dutch national colour. The program Europamagazin from the German public broadcaster ARD produce a reportage about the orange mania. The owner of an orange café and his orange customers… Read More
After 58 Chinese are found dead in a horror truck in Dover, England, it came out that the Chinese were smuggled via The Netherlands. The program Tagesthemen from the German public broadcaster ARD reports about the disaster and need the latest information from the Netherlands…. Read More
BBC Panorama follows some of the most notorious British hooligans during their stay in Europe for the Euro football championships. Both in the Netherlands and in Belgium the English hard core football fans behave extremely aggressive and some of them turn out to be linked… Read More
In the nursing home for people suffering from dementia Hogeweyk in the Dutch town Weesp, the inhabitants stay as independent as possible. They are treated as individuals that should have fun in the last phase of their life. Nothing in Hogeweyk is like life in… Read More