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Can you provide a source for this? I had a look but all I could find were a couple of scaremongering style media reports from ~2022 saying it's getting worse but no information about if any of the bombs actually went off or if anyone was injured.
Certainly nothing like "half a block" getting blown up "sometimes".
Some inhabitants of neighbouring flats are still banned from their flat. And it was three weeks ago.
Five houses unhabitable: https://nos.nl/artikel/2605174-vier-woningen-onbewoonbaar-na...
It's also very common with robbing ATMs, usually known as "plofkraak" but that phenomenon seems to have subsided a bit.
This doesn't say anything about homemade bombs. It just says some boys were seen running away and police assume it was a crime. It could literally have been teenagers and a firework that started a fire.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2544424-dit-jaar-meer-dan-1000-aansla...
That was the number of predicted bomb attacks in one year alone in a really small country.However the prediction was low. In the end 2024 counted more than 1500 of them! And the government set up a task force: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/04/16/offen...
This article speaks of a drop, but still 100 attacks per month https://nos.nl/artikel/2623950-minder-aanslagen-met-explosie... - which adds up to 1200 in a year. It is dropping a little bit compared to 2024 but still a huge thing. 100 a month is 3 a day. Many don't make the national news anymore.