Dutch police arrest 6 men, uncover makeshift torture chamber before it could be used
In this grab taken from video made available by the Netherlands Police on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, a view of a sea container equipped as a torture chamber, in Wouwse Plantage, Netherlands. THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS -- Dutch police arrested six men after discovering sea containers that had been converted into a makeshift prison and sound-proofed "torture chamber" complete with a dentist's chair, tools including pliers and scalpels and handcuffs, a high ranking officer announced Tuesday.
Tuesday's announcement gave a chilling insight into the increasingly violent Dutch criminal underworld, which is involved in the large scale production and trafficking of drugs. They were tipped off by messages from an EncroChat phone including photos of the container and dentist's chair with belts attached to the arm and foot supports. The messages called the warehouse the "treatment room" and the "ebi," a reference to a top security Dutch prison. The messages also reaveled identities of potential victims, who were warned and went into hiding, police said.
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