Penalty payments, revoked permits, forced closure of parks and multiple lawsuits. Peter Gillis and his company Oostappen Group Holiday Parks make the news several times a week. It was announced on Thursday that Gillis is leaving his company ‘with pain in the heart’. What should happen next with the lawsuits and investigations surrounding the company? … Read more
The discovery of a drug lab in Bosschenhoofd turned out to be a nightmare for a family. The mayor immediately decided to close the drug warehouse and their house next door. While specialists emptied the drug lab, the family quickly evacuated their home. “I feel sorry for the children,” says a little boy on the … Read more
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is blocking the enormous inheritance of supermarket owner Chris Grinwis from Halsteren. The suspicion remains that the former supermarket owner may have been poisoned by his ‘new’ love Yvon. But now Yvon is also dead and the fortune, reportedly more than a million euros, threatens to fall into the hands … Read more
Anger and sadness among visitors to the cemetery in Oisterwijk. Several statues have been stolen from graves in recent weeks. Last year the cemetery was also a target of vandals and thieves. “Leave the dead people alone.” Ria Liebregts (80) was tending her husband’s grave at the Petruskerk on Tuesday afternoon. She comes to the … Read more
About ten thousand liters of drug waste was found at the Steeg in Schijndel on Wednesday evening. Ten containers of a thousand liters each were lying in the grass next to the road between Schijndel and Heeswijk-Dinther. Most containers were filled to the brim. A number of the barrels were broken, causing liquid to leak … Read more
A man tried to steal more than six hundred euros worth of groceries from a supermarket on Jan Heijnsstraat in Tilburg on Friday. A security guard spotted the man and stopped him. Around 4 p.m., the security guard saw the suspect walking through the store with someone else and putting products in each other’s baskets … Read more
Two cars on Jan Luijkenlaan in Helmond were seriously damaged by several people. That happened on the night from Sunday to Monday. The reason for the destruction is said to be a dispute between neighbors over a parking space. “I don’t want to live here anymore.” The parked car of a 61-year-old disabled woman and … Read more
The brother of fugitive Breda top criminal ‘Bolle Jos’ Leijdekkers (32) has been arrested in Turkey. He was arrested for laundering the profits of crime. Het Parool reported this on Wednesday. Turkish authorities have not yet released the news. It would according to Het Parool concerns Wilhelmus Adrianus Leijdekkers, who was allegedly arrested in Turkey. … Read more
A 24-year-old man from Eindhoven has been jailed for six months for raping a woman during carnival last year. The court in Den Bosch ruled this on Friday. The man went way too far with a young woman whom he had met shortly before in front of a café on Stratumseind in Eindhoven. Initially, the … Read more
Two men committed a failed attack on coffee shop Caza on the Gasthuisring in Tilburg on Thursday evening just before midnight. They threw a fireworks bomb and a jerry can at the coffee shop, but no explosion followed, the police reported. The police are still looking for the perpetrators. It is the fourth time in … Read more