The controversial faith healer Tom de Wal came to Eindhoven on Saturday morning to hand out flyers. And highways were damaged by the frost: these are the five stories you must read on Saturday.
The controversial faith healer Tom de Wal mobilized about a hundred people in Eindhoven during a flyer campaign on the 18 Septemberplein. Protest groups demonstrated against his arrival because of his statements about the ‘cure’ of homosexuality and autism. De Wal was arrested a day earlier in Tilburg for holding a healing service on the street without a permit.
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A day earlier he was arrested in Tilburg for performing faith healings on the street. He was released later that evening. De Wal must pay a fine.
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The Public Prosecution Service is demanding eight years in prison against a 26-year-old Frenchman who was caught with a large number of weapons on the A16 near Prinsenbeek. His trunk contained twenty hand grenades, assault rifles and ammunition that he wanted to smuggle to Belgium. The court will make its ruling on January 23.
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Due to frost damage, emergency repairs are needed on various Brabant highways this weekend. The low temperatures make the binding agent in the asphalt more brittle, causing cracks and holes. The A2 near Boxtel and the A59 between Nieuwkuijk and Vlijmen, among others, were partly closed.
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Thousands of houses are destroyed, large numbers of cows and other domestic animals die and many thousands of people seek safety when the dikes around the Maas break in 1926. The land of Cuijk is flooded, just like large areas in Gelderland and Utrecht. But Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn should not call it a disaster.
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