US Edition25 years on, Enschede remembers its firework disaster - DutchNews.nl
- On May thirteenth in the year two thousand, multiple blasts occurred at the SE Fireworks storage site located within a residential district of Enschede, resulting in 23 fatalities and nearly 1,000 injuries.
- The disaster followed a reported fire at 3pm on Tollenstraat, where industrial-grade fireworks were stored despite assurances only consumer fireworks were kept there.
- The blasts devastated the Roombeek neighborhood, leaving 1,250 homeless, destroying 200 homes, damaging 1,500 more, and caused an estimated €600 million in repairs.
- Former director Rudi Bakker alleged police overlooked key suspects and possible motives, including a secret land transfer offer worth 1.5 million guilders made one day earlier.
- Twenty-Five years later, Enschede commemorates the tragedy highlighting the city’s regeneration while legal uncertainty and grief persist about the disaster’s exact cause.
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Enschede commemorates fireworks disaster after 25 years with silence and flowers
In Enschede, the fireworks disaster that took place exactly 25 years ago was commemorated. Hundreds of people came to the commemoration, RTV Oost reports. From 15:00, flowers were laid at the memorial in the Roombeek district, the district that was badly hit on 13 May 2000. Every year, the commemoration is busy, but this year even more people came than in other years. "I live here in the district and every time in May you think about it," a man …
Mathilde van der Molen lost her husband in the fireworks disaster: 'I panicked'
Today marks 25 years since firefighter Hans van der Molen died at the age of 43 in the fireworks disaster in Enschede. His wife Mathilde van der Molen (66) has been left with many unanswered questions since his death. For example: 'How did the fire start' and 'Who is responsible for the fireworks disaster that cost 23 lives'?
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