Verdict in the infamous storehouse murder. 24 years jail time. Most remarkable thing: Guido Kosterman's tortured body was found in the garden behind the storage place. That happens to be the garden of a student house. Bilserbaan 59.

Police in student house Orleansstraat 45a/b, Wednesday 14 Jan. Was this a ''general inspection''? Or a specific one? pic.twitter.com/aSYBlpYEz3

— Eduard van Diemen (@eduardvandiemen) January 27, 2015

The City of Maastricht is using a track-and-trace app to follow students in a survey that monitors travel behaviour. Project leader Katya Ivanova made the students an offer they can't refuse, 600 euros, in return for their signature, thus making the whole thing legit.

And this week municipal officers started knocking on the doors of 500 student houses. They will step inside for what they call a general inspection. Is cooperating voluntary? I wonder what happens if the students just don't let them in?

    

Charlie Hebdo is Heroic...and Racist.

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Disrespect is a fundamental right, Charlie Hebdo took it to the limit. Europe took to the streets after the attack on the magazine, basically to defend that very right to mock and insult.

The Limburger adopted the Je Suis Charlie sign and took a stand pro freedom of press. But the readers are confused. A couple of years ago, cartoonist Ruben Oppenheimer was fired because he didn't abide by the newspaper's philosophy of ''keeping the church in the middle'', as the editor, Huub Paulissen, put it in an e-mail to the cartoonist.

Cartoons about the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church were censored, one after another. Considered too disrespectful here in the South. 

By the way, not a single person started a protest when Oppenheimer was terminated.

The dust of the Bits of Freedom Awards barely settled, NOS reporting that the Government is still tapping lawyers.