That was the number of predicted bomb attacks in one year alone in a really small country.However the prediction was low. In the end 2024 counted more than 1500 of them! And the government set up a task force: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/04/16/offen...
This article speaks of a drop, but still 100 attacks per monthhttps://nos.nl/artikel/2623950-minder-aanslagen-met-explosie... - which adds up to 1200 in a year. It is dropping a little bit compared to 2024 but still a huge thing. 100 a month is 3 a day. Many don't make the national news anymore.
> blows up the others' house. Sometimes half the block along with it
Can you provide a source for this? I had a look but all I could find were a couple of scaremongering style media reports from ~2022 saying it's getting worse but no information about if any of the bombs actually went off or if anyone was injured.
Certainly nothing like "half a block" getting blown up "sometimes".
I must live in a different Holland, cause I've literally never heard of this, unless you mean around New Years with fireworks I guess
Seriously? They are used all the time. See here:
https://nos.nl/artikel/2544424-dit-jaar-meer-dan-1000-aansla...
That was the number of predicted bomb attacks in one year alone in a really small country.However the prediction was low. In the end 2024 counted more than 1500 of them! And the government set up a task force: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/04/16/offen...
This article speaks of a drop, but still 100 attacks per month https://nos.nl/artikel/2623950-minder-aanslagen-met-explosie... - which adds up to 1200 in a year. It is dropping a little bit compared to 2024 but still a huge thing. 100 a month is 3 a day. Many don't make the national news anymore.
> blows up the others' house. Sometimes half the block along with it
Can you provide a source for this? I had a look but all I could find were a couple of scaremongering style media reports from ~2022 saying it's getting worse but no information about if any of the bombs actually went off or if anyone was injured.
Certainly nothing like "half a block" getting blown up "sometimes".
Here a whole building evacuated: https://nos.nl/artikel/2605174-vier-woningen-onbewoonbaar-na...
Some inhabitants of neighbouring flats are still banned from their flat. And it was three weeks ago.
Five houses unhabitable: https://nos.nl/artikel/2605174-vier-woningen-onbewoonbaar-na...
It's also very common with robbing ATMs, usually known as "plofkraak" but that phenomenon seems to have subsided a bit.
Those makeshift bombs are just fireworks bought in belgium
Yes that's what I said. But very heavy fireworks, and combined to do a lot of damage. Certainly comparable to a 'pipe bomb' that was being discussed.
Is Holland that good at containing this "there's a huge problem with makeshift bombs" news pieces coming out in the open?
Probably it doesn't make the international news because most of them are just lowlevel criminals blowing each other up.