10.50: Police pelted with fireworks in Hoogezand
Officers were pelted with fireworks on Aalbersestraat in Hoogezand on Tuesday evening. Emergency services received a report of a fire on the lawn in the neighborhood. The police arrived on the scene to monitor the incident, but were then bombarded with fireworks from a garden. “Because we suspected that there were illegal fireworks in the house, we then made an entry,” said a police spokesperson.
‘Those fireworks were not found. We did receive a tip that there were heavy fireworks in a nearby home.’ When officers forced the door there, they were again pelted with fireworks from an alley. There were no injuries.
During the raid on the house, the police seized and destroyed ‘a number of heavy fireworks’. Because the suspects were not visible, no arrests were made.
