NL incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in NL. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 16
- Cities represented
- 12
- Latest incident date
- 18 August 2026
- Latest review
- 28 August 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 records | — |
| 2025 | 4 records | — |
| 2024 | 1 record | — |
No Eurostat reference series is currently loaded for NL.
Current judicial status
- 8Alleged
- 4Charged
- 1On trial
- 3Convicted
Latest judicial-status entries
- Amsterdam, NL
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- Rotterdam, NL
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- Den Haag, NL
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- Amsterdam, NL
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- Bocholtz, NL
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- Rotterdam, NL
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- Utrecht, NL
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- Hoofddorp, NL
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in rotterdam, NL
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 38-year-old man was found dead in his apartment in the De Statendam residential tower on the Botersloot, in the centre of Rotterdam, on the afternoon of Wednesday 19 August 2026. An acquaintance had raised the alarm at about 2.30pm after being unable to reach him. Police treated the death as a crime and opened a large-scale investigation with about twenty officers, searching the tower and its surroundings and canvassing neighbours. The investigation is focused on the night of Monday 17 to Tuesday 18 August: officers appealed for private camera footage recorded between 11pm on 17 August and 3am on 18 August. Three people from Rotterdam — a 33-year-old man and two women aged 27 and 40 — were arrested overnight on suspicion of involvement in the death. According to reports the national broadcaster described as not yet confirmed, they were detained after their car was boxed in by police. How investigators identified them has not been made public, and no charges had been reported at the time of the cited coverage.
- Homicide in den haag, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A woman was shot at a house on the New Yorksingel, in the Wateringse Veld district in the south of Den Haag, shortly after 2am on Saturday 8 August 2026. Emergency services found her seriously wounded at the address, where she lived, and she died. A suspect was arrested after police searched another property. An object resembling a weapon was recovered when he was detained, and the car used to flee the scene was seized. He is being held in full restrictions and may have contact only with his lawyer. The victim was reported to have been 34 and visibly pregnant, and her household was known to the domestic-abuse support service. A silent procession was held in her memory on the Thursday evening following her death. Later reporting described the case as a suspected femicide and identified the suspect as the victim's ex-partner. According to that account the couple had separated and the victim had refused to let him into her home.
- Attempted homicide in rotterdam, NL
· Alleged · 2 sources
Two police officers were seriously injured during a stop in Rotterdam-West on the evening of Tuesday 4 August 2026, after officers responded to a report of a disturbance. Both were taken to hospital and have since returned home; the severity of their injuries was not disclosed. Police said the man had "behoorlijk toegetakeld" — badly beaten up — the two officers. A 49-year-old Rotterdam resident was arrested on suspicion of attempted manslaughter and aggravated assault.
- Homicide in nijmegen, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A young man was shot shortly after 22:00 on 21 July 2026 on the Graafseweg in Nijmegen, just outside the area hosting the Vierdaagsefeesten, while large crowds were in the city. Ambulances and a trauma helicopter were sent to the scene, and the victim — an 18-year-old man from Rotterdam — died in hospital a short time later. Police cordoned off the site for forensic examination and appealed for witnesses. An 18-year-old man from Rotterdam was arrested the following night on suspicion of involvement, but was subsequently released and is no longer treated as a suspect. No one has been charged, and the circumstances of the shooting remain under investigation.
- Homicide in rotterdam, NL
· Alleged · 1 source
Bij een schietpartij in het centrum van Rotterdam is een man overleden. Het incident gebeurde rond 05.30 uur op het kruispunt van de Nieuwe Binnenweg en de Mathenesserlaan. De man raakte zwaargewond, werd ter plekke gereanimeerd, en is daarna overleden. De politie heeft zeven mensen aangehouden en onderzoekt wat hun rol was.
- Attempted homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Alleged · 3 sources
De politie heeft een 20-jarige man uit Amsterdam opgepakt voor poging tot doodslag en een straatroof in de Amsterdamse wijk De Pijp, na afloop van het duel Nederland-Marokko.
- Homicide in venlo, NL
· Alleged · 1 source
Een 56-jarige man uit Venlo is donderdag na een steekpartij overleden aan zijn verwondingen, meldt de politie. Een 55-jarige vrouw uit dezelfde Limburgse stad is opgepakt en zit momenteel vast voor verhoor.
- Homicide in groningen, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
De 15-jarige die wordt verdacht van de dubbele moord op diens ouders in Meerstad blijft in elk geval nog negentig dagen vastzitten. Dat heeft de raadkamer van de rechtbank in Groningen besloten. De verdachte werd op 18 juni aangehouden, kort nadat de politie de lichamen van de ouders levenloos had aangetroffen in hun huis. De politie drong die nacht de woning binnen, nadat er alarm was geslagen do
- Homicide in hoofddorp, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A woman was killed on 15 April 2026 at a house on the Liesbos in Hoofddorp, where she lived with the suspect. At a preliminary hearing the public prosecutor set out that she had been stabbed in the head and neck with a knife and that her throat had been cut. A lawyer for her family described the case as a clear instance of femicide and said the suspect had isolated her from those around her. A 34-year-old man was arrested near the house shortly after the killing and is being held in pre-trial detention in a penitentiary psychiatric centre. He did not attend the preliminary hearing held at the district court in Alkmaar on 27 July 2026, at which the charges against him were read out. Two of the victim's sisters heard the details of the charge for the first time in open court; the public prosecutor apologised to the family's lawyer for the way that happened. The next hearing is scheduled for 12 October 2026.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A 54-year-old man was stabbed to death on the Tugelaweg in Amsterdam-Oost at about 10pm on Tuesday 14 April 2026. Emergency services attempted to resuscitate him, but he died at the scene. A group of students drinking outside nearby witnessed the attack. A 38-year-old Amsterdam man was arrested and remains in pre-trial detention. At a preliminary hearing in August 2026 his lawyer argued for his release, saying there was a major lack of evidence that his client carried out the stabbing; the suspect denies it and says he did not know the victim. The next hearing was set for 20 October 2026. The prosecution alleges that the stabbing followed an argument at a café on the Krugerplein over a debt of 400 euro, during which the suspect was struck by the victim. According to the prosecution, the victim was then run down by a Canta microcar as he fled and stabbed at least twice in the neck.
- Attempted homicide in utrecht, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A man in an electric wheelchair was set on fire on the afternoon of Tuesday 14 April 2026, at about 15:30, outside the shopping centre on the Smaragdplein in Utrecht. Bystanders pulled him from the burning chair and laid him on the ground, and emergency services took him to hospital and later to a specialist burns centre. He suffered third-degree burns to about a fifth of his body and his life was in danger. He has since returned home, but his lawyer says his recovery is uneven and he is in pain around the clock. Two men, aged 55 and 37, were arrested within a day of the attack and are accused of attempted murder, among other offences. At the first public hearing at the court in Utrecht on 28 July 2026 the prosecution said the attack appeared to have been deliberate: one of the men is alleged to have gone into a supermarket, returned with a bottle of methylated spirits and poured it over the victim, and when the first attempt to set him alight faltered the pair are said to have come back to do it more thoroughly. Both men have been referred for psychiatric assessment. The three men were known to each other and investigators have pointed to a conflict between them.
- Homicide in coevorden, NL
· Convicted · 1 source
De rechtbank in Assen heeft the suspect donderdag veroordeeld tot negen jaar cel voor zijn rol bij een dodelijke schietpartij in Coevorden. Daarbij kwam een 21-jarige man om het leven. Een zeventienjarige medeverdachte kreeg 315 dagen jeugddetentie.
- Homicide in bocholtz, NL
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 39-year-old man from Kerkrade was shot dead on the Wilhelminastraat in Bocholtz, in the Dutch province of Limburg, on 29 May 2025. The shooting followed a dispute over the return of a motorcycle club jacket. Two gunmen opened fire almost simultaneously; a 26-year-old man from Bocholtz was shot by the second gunman and survived. On 11 August 2026 the Limburg district court sentenced a 22-year-old man to eleven years' imprisonment for the manslaughter of the 39-year-old and for the attempted manslaughter of another man. The prosecution service had charged murder, or in the alternative manslaughter, and had demanded thirteen years. The other gunman, a 43-year-old man from Heerlen, was convicted earlier in 2026 of the attempted manslaughter of the surviving victim and of unlawful firearm possession, and was sentenced to five years.
- Homicide in rijswijk, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A 41-year-old man was shot dead on the terrace of a hotel in Rijswijk, in the province of Zuid-Holland, shortly before 6pm on Thursday 1 May 2025. The terrace was busy at the time. Witnesses described a man walking up with his face uncovered, firing three shots at close range and running off into the park surrounding the hotel. The victim, a Turkish national, died at the scene. Police released a description and images of the gunman, who remains at large, and of a second suspect who was seen standing with him at the entrance to the park for several minutes before the shooting. Investigators treat the killing as a contract killing. The victim had reported threats against his life shortly beforehand; he was himself wanted in Turkey, where prosecutors suspected him of involvement in the shooting of a businessman and his driver in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus in 2022, and he had recently made public statements about prominent Turkish political and business figures. On 13 November 2025 a 47-year-old man was arrested in Germany at the request of the Dutch authorities on suspicion of involvement, and he was surrendered to the Netherlands at the end of January 2026; he is not suspected of firing the shots, and how he is connected to the case has not been made public. On 23 March 2026 a 34-year-old Turkish man with no fixed address was arrested in France, suspected of being the gunman; he was held there on a weapons charge while the Netherlands sought his surrender. Police are still looking for a third person believed to have been involved.
- Homicide in den dolder, NL
· Convicted · 4 sources
A 76-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Den Dolder on 2 January 2025. She was attacked without warning in the street in broad daylight, on her way home, and was stabbed seventeen times. The man responsible, then 29, was at the time required to stay at a psychiatric clinic in the town following a series of assaults, and was on leave on the day of the attack. On 22 July 2026 the district court in Utrecht convicted him and imposed eight years' imprisonment together with tbs, compulsory psychiatric treatment — a heavier sentence than the six years and tbs the prosecution had demanded. The court found the killing premeditated: he had bought a knife several days beforehand and hidden it under a small bridge, and had made repeated online searches about killing someone and about the sentence murder carries. He was assessed as only partially criminally responsible.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· On trial · 4 sources
A 37-year-old woman was seriously wounded in her home in the Chasséstraat in the De Baarsjes neighbourhood of Amsterdam-West on the evening of Friday 16 August 2024, and died of her injuries in hospital two days later, on Sunday 18 August. Police were called at about 8.50pm and found the wounded woman, her partner and her six-year-old daughter in the flat. The partner, then 27, was arrested at the scene and the child was placed with a relative. The woman had suffered a wound to her leg that severed an artery and caused heavy blood loss. Neighbours later said they had heard what sounded like an argument. The prosecution alleges that the accused inflicted the wound with a shard of glass during a row, and is trying him for manslaughter, with the alternative charge of grievous bodily harm resulting in death if that is not made out. It regards a fallen vase as an unlikely cause of an arterial wound to the upper leg, which it says must have been inflicted with considerable force, and it points to a documented pattern of difficulty controlling aggression on the part of the accused, who had previously undergone treatment for it. The accused denies responsibility. He maintains that he was asleep and that the victim injured herself on a vase that had fallen, and he denies that any argument took place. At a pro-forma hearing in November 2024 forensic examination had produced few clear indications either way, and what happened in the flat that evening remains disputed. On 27 August 2026 the prosecution demanded a sentence of eight years' imprisonment. The accused, by then 29, had been in custody for two years. Judgment was scheduled for 10 September 2026.