Oh well, in this case, the main message, being the statement of the lawyer of ennetcom, was inserted as an update to the tweakers story more than 5 hours later. I agree that nu.nl is not usually a statement to the best journalism, but in this particular case, they got it sooner and right to the point than the "tech press".
Seen from Germany, with all of the criminals "working the border" from Holland, and the fact that the origin of the very large majority of a certain class of ever more annoying criminal gangs of immigrational descent always seems to be in Holland, including the notorious jihadi imams that pop up in Belgium (the Verviers cell, held responsible for several terrorits plots) and in Germany (the Düsseldorf and Hildenheim cells, same story). If we go shopping to Maastricht, it used to be a family excursion in a really nice and clean and friendly littel city, now you pretty much need an armoured escort to make your way through the junkies and zombies littering the thoroughly diirty, partially dilapidated and unfriendly city full of scared people who literally throw you out of their shop so they can get home outside the city before dark. And if you drive to Maastricht with your family to go shopping, you get stalked and harrassed by the Dutch police as if they haven't got anything better to do. That is first hand experience, nothing to do with politics, which I am not discussing.
The thing with the Blackberry Messenger service is that the messages are deleted and overwritten after 48 hours. So just confiscating the servers would only bring 48 hours worth of messages, not 3.6 million messages. So the sad reality is that the police and prosecution and probably the marechaussee or the secret service, had been intercepting these messages long before they even applied for an inquisitorial instruction based on money laundry. They just helped themselves with any legal ground, completely raping the democratic principles of justice, and then started building a retro-active justification charade. It's the sad evolution that is typical for such circumstances.
In Germany, there was a period called the "German Winter", basically the period from the Rote Armee Faktion to the Chaos Computer Club, where the German authorities and police would employ similar methods. The unsentenced suspects of the Rote Armee Faktion would be isolated, would be visited by CIA operatives, and would end up "committing suicide" in prison, the founder of the Chaos Computer Club would first commit suicide in his car, then being dead, step out of his car, ingnite his car with gasoline from the outside, then hurry back into his car to burn. It is not good to allow this kind of evolution, even though it is the wet dream of ultra-right morons and their populist agenda. Such institutionalised illegality is always a reaction to a period in which people have lost their minds over nonsense. In Germany, after WWII, they were so afraid of setting any rules at all, that the German military was allowed to have long hair, because they couldn't be hampered in their freedom of expression, and they had to wear hairnets for their safety. In the same period, Germany, especially West-Berlin, became the world's pornography and deviant sex industry capital, the streets were littered with junkies, etc... sound familiar? People have a really hard time focussing on the important stuff when it comes to freedom. Especially people with a Calvinist-influenced background like the Netherlands and Germany, people who always blame themselves for the failure of others and thus create a climate where people who do point fingers, can easily come to power.
And just to complete the picture, that disarray is still not gone in Germany, and it will probably never really disappear, even 30 years after the reunification. Frankfurt is the financial center of Europe right, you would expect a very nice city. Well it's like London, the Financial City and the boutiques are very nice, but then you drive to the airport, like in London you take the train to London City Airport in the Docks, and you ride past all of those dilapidated large buildings where people live in questionnable circumstances... Frankfurt has exactly that. Frankfurt also happens to harbour the world's largest cyber warfare unit operated by the CIA and NSA, and a lot of the cyber weapons the US uses against the rest of the world are developed there, because they are illegal to be developed on US soil. Same in Bavaria and Northern Germany with the US attack drones. Or Bonn, the former capital of Germany, now a Saudi enclave with the German CIA headquarters in the middle of it, another very sad story of total decay. Lawlessness by authorities creates a climate in which lawlessness becomes a standard for society. "If you can't beat them, join them" is the most evil of all principles.