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Feyenoord made a less-than-ideal start to their UEFA Champions League campaign on Thursday. The Rotterdammers conceded four goals in the first half against German champions Bayer Leverkusen at home, leading to a final score of 0-4. This followed PSV’s heavy defeat at the hands of Juventus earlier this week in the competition.Brian Priske gave South Korean midfielder Hwang In-Beom his debut in the match. The midfielder was signed by Red Star Belgrade last summer but was not eligible to play until now due to work permit issues.

Several parachutists landed in a tree in Overasselt, Gelderland, on Wednesday evening during an Airborne parachute jump to remember Operation Market Garden in World War Two, according to NOS. Some people were injured during this, but not life-threatening, the Gelderland-Zuid Safety Region reported earlier on Wednesday evening.According to a spokesperson, six parachutists were left hanging in a tree after the jump. The so-called high rescue team from Utrecht was called out to help. The last parachutists were freed just after 9:30 p.m.

Police arrested a 25-year-old man from Helmond on Wednesday in a sex crime case. The exact details of the case are unclear, as the Public Prosecution Service (OM) reported, but they did say that several parents filed reports about the man who worked as a teacher's assistant at a primary school in his place of residence.The police investigation started after a report came in on Friday that the man had sexually abused an underage girl. The police have seized all data carriers from the man, which are usually telephones and computers and will now investigate these.

A plane wreck from the Second World War was discovered in the soil of the Van Veldhuizen forest in Dronten. It is believed to be a British Avro Lancaster bomber. The Ministry of Defense and its Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) service have asked the municipality to cordon off the area until the plane is recovered next year, Omroep Flevoland reports.

A group of squatters moved into a 3.3 million euro home on Johannes Verhulstraat in Amsterdam’s Zuid district last week. They’ve hung several banners from the balconies on the first and second floors, including one reading: “Do it yourself, do it together, dispossess homeowners.” The owner has filed a report, the police told AT5 on Wednesday.

The Cabinet cannot declare that the asylum situation in the Netherlands is a crisis so that they can unilaterally enact emergency measures to tighten asylum policy, according to top officials at the the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. They advised their minister against such an attempt “under the current circumstances,” according to heavily-redacted documents that the Cabinet shared with the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Parliament.

The highest European Court issued criticism on Thursday about the price rules that Booking.com forced hotel owners to follow. Earlier, the owners were not allowed to offer lower prices on their own website or a different booking site than on Booking.com. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has now decided that Booking.com was not allowed to do this in accordance with European Union laws.

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has fined two so-called 'finfluencers' 800,000 euros for working with the illegal asset manager Grinta Invest. The self-proclaimed investment advisors promoted Grinta Invest and ensured that people joined the illegal party, earning them substantial rewards.

A 27-year-old woman from Den Bosch who is detained on suspicion of involvement with the attempted murder of an Iranian activist and journalist who is living in Haarlem denies knowing of the plans to assassinate him. “I expect the truth to come out that I knew of nothing and have nothing to do with it,” said Chahinez K. in the court in Schiphol on Thursday.

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) added a terrorism charge against four men “who are part of a radical minority within the sovereign movement.” The four men discussed “arresting” mayors and other local authority figures and delivering them to a people’s tribunal, the prosecutor revealed during a pro forma hearing in the court in Rotterdam on Wednesday. Two other men, both from Olst-Wijhe, are on trial for providing weapons to these “radical sovereignists.”