A majority of MPs have urged prime minister Mark Rutte to get directly involved in efforts to have convicted World War II criminal Klaas Faber jailed.

Faber, 89, was born in Haarlem. He was found guilty of war crimes but escaped from jail in Breda in 1952 and has lived in Germany as a free man since then. He now has German nationality and Germany has a policy not to deport its nationals.
MPs want Rutte to pressure German chancellor Angela Merkel to make sure Faber does serve time behind bars.
‘At least let Merkel say in public that she agrees with the Netherlands,’ Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer told news agency ANP.
Rutte told MPs later he did not plan to raise the issue publicly with Merkel. This is partly due to the strict separation between the government and the legal apparatus in Germany, television news channel Nos said.