There was an explosion at a house on Desmijndijk in Roosendaal on Saturday night. The front door and windows next to the door were blown out. Several local residents were awakened by the loud bang. No one has been arrested yet.
The police received several reports of the explosion around half past four in the morning. “On site it turned out that the door had been destroyed. We immediately started an investigation that is still ongoing,” says a spokesperson.
They are also looking for witnesses. “People who have camera images that show something suspicious, people who saw something suspicious or unusual earlier that evening or night, people who saw someone running away around the time of the explosion.”
Woke up with a start
According to a local resident, the bang was so loud that it woke up a whole group of people. “I was shaking in my bed. This was not a small firework bomb, really. We no longer feel safe here because it is not the first time that things have happened here.”
Several people in the street also have the feeling that we are being silenced by the police. “The residents of the house boarded up the door themselves because no one showed up, even though that would happen.”
Multiple incidents
There have been rumblings in the Desmijndijk and the rest of the neighborhood for years. In the spring, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a house. The mayor then closed that house for a number of weeks. A few months earlier, an explosive device was also thrown into a house a block away.
In 2024, a front door was also blown off a house with a fireworks bomb. In the years before that, several shots were fired, fires were set and local residents were harassed.
After last year’s explosion, the municipality announced that they are aware of the problems in the area. “We take this seriously, but we don’t just see drug nuisance in this neighborhood. We see it in the entire region. In fact, it is even a national picture.”
The explosion can be seen and heard on a surveillance camera video:
