Fireworks sales have started, so many Dutch people are driving to Germany again to buy cheaply. Yet such a journey can cost you dearly. Today the police seized more than 2,500 kilos of fireworks in Drenthe. Fines were also issued.
From early this morning, the police drove along the German border and took cars off the road here and there for checks. And it was often a hit. Such as two boys who crossed the border at Coevorden in a Volkswagen Polo around 1 p.m.
There were no prohibited fireworks in the trunk, but there were a lot of them. The driver, a boy with a black coat, estimated that it was about fifteen to twenty kilos: “I thought I would keep it a bit quiet this year.”
You can take a maximum of 25 kilos in a car. The officers cannot check this, because the weight is not indicated on the fireworks. That is why everything is taken to the police station in Coevorden for weighing.