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On the National Day of Awareness on Friday, June 30, there will be numerous commemorations and activities throughout the country. Also on the day before Keti Koti, on which the Netherlands commemorates and celebrates the abolition of slavery, thousands of free heri heri meals will be handed out.

In one week, on July 1, it will be exactly 150 years since slavery was effectively ended under Dutch rule. In the run-up to Keti Koti, the day to celebrate and commemorate the abolition of slavery, activities are taking place across the country. Starting Tuesday, chefs in the kitchen of the Royal Palace at Dam Square in Amsterdam will prepare the Surinamese dish Heri Heri, which was eaten by enslaved people on the plantations. As part of Free Heri Heri For All, this dish will be distributed free of charge not only in Amsterdam but throughout the Netherlands.

Due to significant growth in the number of private cameras registered with the police, the Netherlands is increasingly under surveillance. The police currently have 321,000 private cameras registered in its database, amounting to about ten cameras per square kilometer, AD reports based on figures tech site VPNGids got from the police after appealing to the Open Government Act.

The major fire that raged since Friday evening in several business premises in Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, was brought under control by the fire department. The smoke, for which an NL-Alert was previously sent, has also decreased. A so-called crash tender was used to fight the fire, a firefighting vehicle that is normally used at airports. So far, no one has been injured.