The police are investigating more than thirty burglaries in commercial vehicles in the Northern Netherlands. The thefts were committed between the end of March and mid-April.
Entrepreneur André Cazemier still hates it. Last week his company bus in Appelscha was emptied at night after thieves had gained access to the bus by cutting open the outside of the bus. An annoying incident you would say, but days later there is little more of an incident.
The police have been recording one report after another in recent days. The counter now stands at 33. For the entrepreneurs themselves, the grapes are sour: their damage runs into the thousands of euros. In Cazemier’s case, he has a fairly new bus, thirty thousand euros, he says.
What particularly stings Cazemier is the way the thieves proceeded. “On camera footage I have seen two men with a briefcase shopping at my bus. And that goes so smoothly that it seems as if they feel inviolable. That makes me completely mad,” he says.
The thieves seem to have their sights set on tools, but they are not afraid of the bigger work either. “They also trudge onto other people’s grounds without any shame,” he grumbles. The duped entrepreneurs want to do everything they can to find out the thieves, although Cazemier himself refuses to put the images online. “Then I will have done it later. But we have license plates on the screen. Even if I have to drive to Maastricht to confront someone, bring it on,” he concludes.