Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ...
by jacquesm on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:23PM
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It wasn't in the vicinity, there was a 50 km or so distance between the two.
The bridge is one of very few points where you can cross from the Southern part of the Netherlands into the Northern part ( https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.6106721,5.6448216,16z?hl=en ), and has cameras on it making it an ideal choke point for ~30% of the North-South traffic in NL.
The burglaries were all in Friesland, quite a bit further North and the thieves iirc came from Amsterdam all the way to the North to hit wealthy looking solitary houses (of which there are quite a few in the North and almost none near Amsterdam where the population density is a lot higher).
So I can totally see why the police figured that this would work and it did.
Anyway, I can't readily find a citation but I recall the case clearly because there was a lot of uproar here that the thieves were set free when it was 100% clear that they were guilty based on how they were discovered.
But all my queries regarding 'ketelbrug, vrijspraak, inbrekers' do not return anything useful.
The bridge is one of very few points where you can cross from the Southern part of the Netherlands into the Northern part ( https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.6106721,5.6448216,16z?hl=en ), and has cameras on it making it an ideal choke point for ~30% of the North-South traffic in NL.
The burglaries were all in Friesland, quite a bit further North and the thieves iirc came from Amsterdam all the way to the North to hit wealthy looking solitary houses (of which there are quite a few in the North and almost none near Amsterdam where the population density is a lot higher).
So I can totally see why the police figured that this would work and it did.
Anyway, I can't readily find a citation but I recall the case clearly because there was a lot of uproar here that the thieves were set free when it was 100% clear that they were guilty based on how they were discovered.
But all my queries regarding 'ketelbrug, vrijspraak, inbrekers' do not return anything useful.