Netherlands
The Netherlands have regularly reported hate crime data to ODIHR. The Netherlands' Criminal Code contains no hate crime provision. The framework for hate crime investigation and prosecution is set based on guidance from the Office of the Public Prosecutor. The National Police and the National Expertise Centre on Discrimination of the Office of the Public Prosecutor are primarily responsible for hate crime data collection. Police statistics are published annually. The Central Bureau of Statistics conducts annual crime victimization surveys.
OFFICIAL DATA
| Year | Hate crimes recorded by police | Prosecuted | Sentenced |
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| 2020 | 2133 | 409 | Not available |
| 2019 | 2016 | 343 | Not available |
| 2018 | 3299 | 312 | 91 |
| 2017 | 3499 | 331 | 79 |
| 2016 | 4376 | - | - |
| 2015 | 5288 | Not available | Not available |
| 2014 | 5721 | 133 | 87 |
| 2013 | 3614 | 83 | 89 |
| 2012 | 3292 | 114 | Not available |
| 2011 | 2802 | 169 | Not available |
| 2010 | 3538 | 170 | 90 |
| 2009 | 2212 | 160 | 135 |
About 2018 Data
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Figures reported to ODIHR and presented here include hate speech and discrimination offences (or "basic forms of discrimination"), as well as hate crimes ("common offences with a discriminatory motive"). Where multiple biases are registered in an offence, each of them is reported individually in the breakdown below. Data from prosecutors and courts refer to the "discriminatory facts" found in incidents, rather than the numbers of incidents.
Hate crime recorded by police
The police figures include hate speech incidents, data reported by local anti-discrimination services, and online hate speech incidents, which cannot be disaggregated. Hate crimes recorded by the police can only be disaggregated by either bias motivation or type of crime (both breakdowns were reported to ODIHR) but not simultaneously by both. The disaggregation below shows the total numbers for each bias motivation.
INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES
Racist and xenophobic hate crime
| Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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| 2018-01 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-03 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-04 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-07 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-06 | Violent attacks against people | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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Anti-Semitic hate crime
| Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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| 2018-08 | Threats | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-02 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-07 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-06 | Violent attacks against people | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-03 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-04 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-01 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-03 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-05 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-06 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-06 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-04 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-01 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-03 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-03 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-04 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-05 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-06 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-09 | Violent attacks against people | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-07 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-11 | Threats | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-08 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-11 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-07 | Attacks against property | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-05 | Violent attacks against people | OIDAC
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| 2018-07 | Threats | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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| 2018-06 | Threats | Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI)
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Anti-Muslim hate crime
| Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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| 2018 | Threats | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-01 | Attacks against property | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-01 | Attacks against property | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-02 | Attacks against property | SETA
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| 2018 | Violent attacks against people | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-03 | Attacks against property | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-05 | Attacks against property | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-07 | Violent attacks against people | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-09 | Attacks against property | SETA
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| 2018-10 | Attacks against property | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-11 | Attacks against property | Turkish Forum Netherlands
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| 2018-02 | Attacks against property | SETA
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| 2018-02 | Attacks against property | SETA
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| 2018 | Attacks against property | SETA
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| 2018-09 | Attacks against property | SETA
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Anti-Christian hate crime
| Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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| 2018-05 | Violent attacks against people | OIDAC
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Anti-LGBTI hate crime
| Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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| 2018-10 | Violent attacks against people | COC Netherlands
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| 2018-04 | Violent attacks against people | COC Netherlands
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| 2018-03 | Threats | COC Netherlands
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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Racist and xenophobic hate crime, Anti-LGBTI hate crime
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published relevant recommendations in its "Fifth Report on the Netherlands."
Racist and xenophobic hate crime
The United Nations Human Rights Committee published relevant recommendations in its "Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of the Netherlands."
KEY OBSERVATION
ODIHR observes that the Netherlands have not reported on cases of hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech or discrimination