{"id":204031,"date":"2022-12-22T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=204031"},"modified":"2022-12-22T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:36:53","slug":"german-dutch-seize-250-tonnes-of-illegal-heavy-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=204031","title":{"rendered":"German, Dutch seize 250 tonnes of illegal heavy fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/cms\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/900x\/public\/images\/image00008.jpeg?itok=HEa0bps0\" alt=\"image00008.jpeg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>THE HAGUE, Dec 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; <strong>Police seized some 250 tonnes of illegal heavy fireworks after raiding a bunker near the Dutch-German border, Europol said, with the illicit pyrotechnics destined for annual New Year&#8217;s celebrations in the Netherlands.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The raid about 20 kilometres from the eastern Dutch city of Enschede across the German border followed a year-long probe into a Dutch criminal group trading in &#8220;dangerous, highly-explosive fireworks,&#8221; Europol said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The suspects involved in this illegal scheme attempted to circumvent the strict regulations for the sale of fireworks by hiding behind the facade of a legal company, registered for the sale of authorised fireworks,&#8221; the Hague-based law agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The suspects stored the heavy fireworks in unsecured locations, while illegally selling these extremely dangerous goods to the public \u2013 despite such fireworks being banned for open sale,&#8221; Europol added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two suspects were arrested in the Netherlands, but police did not give further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fireworks are a major part of Dutch celebrations over New Year&#8217;s Eve when millions of euros are forked out on pyrotechnics and streets across the country resemble virtual battlefields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, dozens of people are injured and limbs are lost every year, mainly when illegal fireworks are set off. People are occasionally killed in the annual fireworks frenzy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 24-year-old Dutch man died on Saturday after powerful fireworks exploded in his face, while last year a 12-year-old boy was killed and another seriously injured while watching fireworks being set off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Netherlands in 2020 banned all heavy-duty pyrotechnics and so far twelve municipalities including Amsterdam and Rotterdam have imposed a total ban on fireworks, although many say police struggle to enforce the rule. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE, Dec 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Police seized some 250 tonnes of illegal heavy fireworks after raiding a bunker near the Dutch-German border, Europol said, with the illicit pyrotechnics destined for annual New Year&#8217;s celebrations in the Netherlands. The raid about 20 kilometres from the eastern Dutch city of Enschede across the German border followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204037,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204031\/revisions\/204037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}