The Justice Ministry began reviewing safety at Dutch prisons today, a day after the Netherlands’ most deadly fire in a decade killed 11 immigrants awaiting deportation at a detention centre outside Schiphol Airport.

THOUSANDS of Irish people who flock to Amsterdam’s famous coffee shops each year will be hit under Dutch plans to combat ‘drug tourism’.

THE killers of an outspoken Dutch filmmaker threatened his scriptwriter — a politician who renounced Islam and criticised its customs — in a letter that was pinned to the victim’s body with a knife.

An Islamic radical accused of killing Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, then slitting his throat, will be tried as a terrorist.

A letter left on the body of a Dutch film-maker murdered in Amsterdam contained death threats against a politician, apparently written by an unknown organisation.

A letter left on the body of a Dutch film-maker murdered in Amsterdam contained death threats against a Dutch politician and was signed by an unknown group, the justice minister said tonight.

A Islamic fundamentalist with alleged terrorist ties was being held in a prison hospital today for the murder of a Dutch filmmaker who criticised the treatment of women under Islam.

European Union officials reacted cautiously to a proposal to set up immigrant processing camps outside EU borders, possibly in Libya or Ukraine.