The Marengo trial, also known as the Marengo case (Dutch: Marengo-proces), is a legal proceeding involving alleged high-ranking members of the Mocro Maffia, a Dutch-Moroccan criminal organisation. The trial centers on seventeen defendants accused of participating in numerous murders and attempted murders. The Marengo trial… Read More

Over the last years the intercepted shipments of cocaine in the harbours of Rotterdam and Antwerp seriously increased in number and in quantity. German Europe correspondent Michael Grytz from TV public channel ARD wants to find out what is happening at the Antwerp and Rotterdam… Read More

The German first public TV program ARD Weltspiegel re-broadcasts a more extensive reportage about Jewish people in Antwerp using genetic tests to fight the chance of diseases that are widespread in the Jewish community. Since orthodox Jews only marry and reproduce in their own community,… Read More

In February six specialised Dutch mobile teams, each with a doctor, started to carry out euthanasia at the home of patients whose own family doctor refuses to help. As all other patients, the patients helped by the mobile teams need to face a future of… Read More

After Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, two Dutch cities along the border with Belgium, indicated to close all coffee shops within two years to fight drugs tourism, a special cannabis summit is organised. The mayors of cities with coffee shops meet to discuss the problems… Read More

Halfway 2008 Greenpeace published a report on the industrial shellfish fishery along the coast of Mauretania. The conclusions are that both nature and the local economy are damaged severely. Greenpeace warns that the new plans of a Dutch shell fish fishery company will be even… Read More

Most of the chicken cages from Kofi, a chicken farmer in Ghana, are empty. Around 90% of the chicken farmers in Ghana already went bankrupt because they cannot sell chicken meat anymore. According to traders it is too expensive. This is because chicken meat from… Read More

After months of absence caused by death threats, the Dutch Somalian politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali arrives back in the Dutch parliament. A huge media hype arises. For reportages for Europamagazin and Weltspiegel from the first German public TV broadcaster ARD need footage from the arrival… Read More

he parliamentary inquiry into the Bijlmer disaster is set up in response to the Bijlmer disaster in which an ELAL cargo plane crashed into an apartment building in Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer district on the 4th of October 1992.This plane crash killed at least 43 people. After… Read More

For ages the Amsterdam Taxi Service (TCA) had the monopoly of exploiting the cabs in Amsterdam. It was only the TCA that could give out the hyper expensive licences for cab drivers in Amsterdam. After a change in law new taxi companies appear on the… Read More

The ‘Wadden zee’ is one of the largest tide regions in the world and a crossroads of many different migration routes of millions of different birds. But there is also around 20 billion cubic meters of gas under the Wadden sea. The largest untapped gas… Read More

It took train guard Ted Boeree two years and a lot of operations to recover socially and mentally after being beaten up heavily during work. In a period where violence in society is a big theme in The Netherlands, Boeree started up an internal service… Read More