Two verdicts dominate the Dutch dailies: jail for war criminal Demjanjuk, and failure for the Dutch ditty in the Eurovision Song Contest. The Tripoli air crash investigation is held up by a “more serious” disaster, says de Volkskrant. Telecom firm KPN is in trouble for Deep Packet Inspection. And the Dutch will be inspecting their borders with a network of all-seeing “smart cameras”.

Demjanjuk – justice done?
“The verdict isn’t satisfying,” David Barnouw of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation tells de Volkskrant. Trouw’s editorial on the sentencing of war criminal John Demjanjuk goes further. “It’s perhaps the least satisfying outcome for this judicial process.” But “judicial verdicts in these cases are unsatisfying by definition,” says Mr Barnouw, “they don’t solve the suffering of the war”.

“It’s regrettable that the trial has never entirely been able to remove the doubts about Demjanjuk’s guilt,” de Volkskrant comments. The family of Dutch people murdered in the Sobibor concentration camp are “furious” that Demjanjuk has walked free despite his five-year sentence, De Telegraaf reports – in the two well-buried columns it reserves for the story.

But nrc.next quotes 90-year-old Dutch Sobibor survivor Jules Schelvis: “I’m satisfied.” “To us the important thing is that he was found guilty,” says Jan Goedel, whose parents were murdered in the camp. What Trouw finds the most unsatisfying thing about the Demjanjuk case is his continuing silence. “A word from Demjanjuk would have been much more important than his punishment.”

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Tripoli air crash: “our tragedy is more serious”
A year after the Tripoli air disaster in which 70 Dutch people died, the family of the victims have held a memorial service, de Volkskrant and Trouw report.

The results of the crash investigation were due, but there’s no sign of them yet. The Dutch government is considering calling in the International Civil Aviation Organisation to take over the probe, says Trouw.

De Volkskrant phoned chief investigator Neji Dhaou in Libya to ask how he was getting on with the job. “What do you expect?” he protests. “We’re being bombed by the allies, it’s like the Second World War here. Of course we’ve not been able to do anything.” He understands the victims’ families want answers, but he blames NATO. “This disaster is a tragedy. But our tragedy is more serious than yours.”

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Telecom firm KPN spied on customers
Deep Packet Inspection. This mysterious term describes a method Dutch telecom firm KPN has been using to eavesdrop on its customers, de Volkskrant reports. And it’s landed the company in trouble for violating its client’s privacy.

KPN says it hasn’t been reading what people were actually saying, De Telegraaf reports. The company just wanted to know how many of its customers were using apps to chat without paying, instead of forking out for SMS messages.

But in a stern editorial, the paper says that after Google was caught out for registering the details of 3.6 million WIFI networks in the Netherlands, it’s time the government stepped in with tighter privacy rules. The Dutch don’t want their deep packets inspected, thank you.

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Dutch border: come on in, but smile for the camera
“Our borders will be staying open as usual,” said Immigration Minister Gerd Leers after a meeting with his European counterparts in Brussels. There’ll be no extra checks at the Dutch borders to keep out North African migrants, AD reports.

Not surprisingly, the news “needled” the anti-immigrant Freedom Party (PVV), the paper says. The Netherlands urgently needs to do something about the “tens of thousands of fortune-seekers heading for our country”, according to Freedom Party MP Louis Bontes.

De Telegraaf is more excited about another announcement Mr Leers made at his Brussels meeting. A network of “smart cameras” along the border will soon be picking out human traffickers and drug smugglers.

As soon as criminals drive into our country, their registration number and the colour of their car will be recorded and passed on to an advanced computer system, the paper explains. “The cameras see everything.” Even more than Deep Packet Inspection?

The Dutch and Eurovision – justice done?
It’s worth a couple of centimetres in the serious papers, a front-page splash in De Telegraaf and AD. With the song Never alone by the 3Js, yet again the Dutch aren’t through to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. For the seventh year in a row, De Telegraaf mourns. Which makes us “the worst-performing country of the past ten years”.

As ever, the Dutch dailies ritually conclude that it was all dreadfully unfair. It’s not about the artistic quality, complains 3Js guitarist Jaap de Witte, but all about the “visual aspects”. “What a deception,” indignant pop singer Jan Smit tells De Telegraaf. Judge for yourself – here’s last night’s performance.