A few thousand environmental activists from all over Europe have occupied a railway line of energy giant RWE near Hambach in Germany just over the border near Heerlen. Lignite is being transported from the lignite quarry to power plants via this track. There are also 140 Dutch people among the activists.
Two men from Landgraaf, who are suspected of threatening the mayor of Voerendaal, have been released on Friday. They continue to suspect, reports the Public Prosecutor. The two were arrested in early August. They would also have set fire in a shed in that Limburg municipality.
A 36-year-old man from Heerlen has been re-sentenced to twelve years of cell for years of sexual abuse of his daughter and three other young children. The court in Den Bosch filed the same sentence on Wednesday as the court in Limburg last year.
At a homeless shelter in Heerlen has surfaced norovirus. The patients have a separate dormitory. The staff of The Clog and other residents have received explanations about hygiene. Reported De Limburger.
A 19-year-old resident of the refugee center (azc) in Heerlen is since Wednesday night in the cell. He is suspected to have raped a woman on the Scale Dealer Edge in the same place.
A 50-year-old policeman from Geleen would have received three tons of providing police information to criminals in Limburg. The agent was arrested some time ago and then released again, but now he's behind bars again.
The Heerlen councilor Christian Petermann (40) Monday heard what pronouncing judgment on him, the court in Maastricht for his so-called 'kampbeultweet. In it he compared a prosecutor in the trial of the Roermond politician Jos van Rey with SS camp guard Irma Grese.
The Open University in Heerlen has had a data breach. An ethical hacker has discovered and after notifying the university website last week off the air. Reported De Limburger.
The Netherlands is making work faster rail connections with Germany and Belgium.
The police on Wednesday together with the National Animal Protection Inspectorate (LID) 32 neglected dogs of different breeds in a house in Heerlen found. The animals, including nine puppies were locked in dark lofts.
Brussels Terrorist Salah Abdeslam was possibly targeted a German nuclear storage. In his apartment in the Brussels district of Molenbeek he had information about the German nuclear center Jülich, about twenty kilometers east of the Limburg Heerlen. Writing a number of German newspapers Thursday.
The intensive checks at the border between Belgium and the Netherlands on Tuesday led to long queues. That report the ANWB and the Traffic Information Service (VID).
The extreme weather conditions in the past year, made for the first time since 2006 that there was another increase in the number of requests for help from victims after disasters such as fires, explosions and floods.
