13 december 2000 - FORMER MAYOR PEPPERS NOT DELIVER CONTINUED TO receipts

Rotterdam – Former Mayor of Rotterdam Pepper is not prosecuted for the receipts affair with the city of Rotterdam. The criminal investigation was put to stop him. After a negative opinion of the auditors KPMG Pepper stepped in as Minister of the Interior. But the things that emerged were too small and too old to prosecute.

 

13 december 1991 – LARGE EXPLOSION AT THE DSM BOTLEK;  MULTIPLE DEAD

Botlek – If a contractor is working on some tanks in the area of ​​DSM is there a spark when the vapors of benzoic acid. It caused the biggest explosion in the port of Rotterdam in history. Fall six dead. An injured dies a few months later of his injuries yet, by which the final death toll comes in seven.

Factories in the Rijnmond area. Foto: DSM

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