In a van in Berkel-Enschot, the police discovered about 57 kilos of illegal heavy firecrackers on Thursday evening. The driver of the van, a 21-year-old man of no permanent residence in the Netherlands, has been arrested. He has been in trouble with the police before.
The van contained so-called shells, among other things.
Alert
The police asks everyone to be alert to the storage of batches of illegal fireworks in houses, garage boxes and vans, for example. “The presence of such explosive material poses a danger to the environment.”
Anyone who suspects that batches of illegal fireworks are being stored somewhere or that illegal fireworks are being sold is requested to call the police on telephone number 0900-8844 or Report Crime Anonymously.