• In the Rotterdam Eye Hospital is the counter of it number of fireworks victims up on Sunday morning seventeen. In seven, the injury is so severe that surgery is required. Six of them have since undergone surgery. Ophthalmologist Tjeerd de Faber speaks of a old fashioned horror night‘.
• The most hospitals have another one after two quieter corona years busy New Year’s Eve but the crowds remained manageable.
• The many digital new year wishes also have this year peak crowds provided on the mobile networks. Bee VodafoneZiggo became almost half as much data around the turn of the year used than last year, at KPN that was 32 percent more than last year and at T Mobile five percent.
• On the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam are during the turn of the year racist slogans. There was, among other things, ‘White lives matter’, ‘happy white 2023’ and ‘Black Pete did nothing wrong’. The police is investigating the case.
• Despite the lighting ban in twelve municipalities including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Nijmegen and Haarlem, the explosion of fireworks could also be heard on a large scale in those places.
• The weather during New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? Check out what we had and can expect here.
