The parliamentary year kicks off, but did MPs really have a break. There are renewed calls to put a Nazi war criminal behind bars. A photo exhibition promotes tolerance towards sexual diversity in the Netherlands. And the devil’s double is in Amsterdam, while prize winning dogs swelter in the heat in Leeuwarden.

Renewed calls to punish Nazi war criminal
There have been renewed calls for a Dutch-born Nazi war criminal to be put behind bars. According to De Telegraaf and AD, Klaas Carel Faber has become the most sought war criminal on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s list (since the death of fellow Nazi Sándor Krépíró).

The Dutch SS-er was sentenced to death in the Netherlands after World War II, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was found guilty of murdering 22 resistance fighters. However, he escaped from prison in 1952 and fled to Germany where former members of the SS automatically receive German nationality. Germany does not extradite its citizens, so the 89-year-old has been living as a free man ever since.
At a press conference Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which investigates Nazi war criminals, said “This man does not deserve pity because he is old […] He did not take pity on his victims.” The centre wants Dutch MPs to ask the government to put pressure on the Germans to at least make him sit out his sentence in Germany.