Four News Reports: Promes, Debate, Jumbo, and Hoogkerk (Wednesday, March 18)

Quincy Promes wants to speak in the appeal after all. His lawyers say that he stabbed a family member once in 2020. According to him, this happened during chaos at a family party in Abcoude, with a small knife. Promes was silent before, but now he says that he regrets it. He was also punished for importing 1,350 kilos of cocaine, but denies any assistance in that.

The NOS final debate in Tilburg focused mainly on asylum, housing, and language. Local politicians said that national politicians should watch their words more carefully. According to them, council members receive threats more often, and language from The Hague has consequences. Opinions were strongly divided about the distribution law and asylum reception. Wilders wanted a stop to asylum, but others opted for cooperation between municipalities.

Jumbo (a Dutch supermarket chain) is removing all frozen green beans of its private label from the stores. This happens after customers found dead mice in bags of green beans. According to Jumbo, this is out of precaution and there is no danger. Customers may return old bags if they do not trust them. The supermarket is investigating with suppliers how this could have happened.

A 35-year-old man is suspected of abusing a 10-year-old boy. That reportedly happened in Hoogkerk. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he also had about five hundred possible criminal conversations. Those conversations were via Snapchat with children aged 8 to 17 years. Two victims are now known. The man is also suspected of child pornography, remains in custody, and will appear in court again on May 21.