The police therefore see a shift from shooting incidents to explosions, and an increase in home-made explosions. There’s flash powder in those homemade bombs, which is also in Cobras. “This flash powder has enormous explosive power and is also used to blow up ATMs, for example. Sometimes iron mailboxes are literally torn to shreds by the explosion.”
Sharp increase in explosives in the Central Netherlands: already more than in the whole of 2022
