'No room for scum'

"It is up to the municipality of Ede and the National Police to restore law and order," said the Labour minister. According Asscher not this is a problem specifically is about young people with a Moroccan background. "Do not let the impression that we do not enforce the rules or that are only Moroccans. They are Dutch. "

After last week's riots in Ede had arisen after the conclusion of a teahouse, the Moroccan consul went to church. This created the impression that he wanted to do what the Dutch government failed, namely to prevent new riots by Moroccan troublemakers. According to Ede Mayor Van der Knaap (CDA) However, the diplomat came out of interest along and offering apologies.

The PvdA minister chooses his response clearly to also highlight the other side of the incident in Ede. For example, he notes that the neighborhood has rebelled and demonstrated against the riots. "It's also nice that Moroccan residents show that they have just as much tobacco for young people who for all - first and foremost for the people in their own neighborhood - to spoil."

According Asscher ruining the 'scum' also their related product 'for Dutch Moroccan youth who so often are rejected for a job and have not earned.

The riots emerged in the disadvantaged neighborhood Ede Veldhuizen, after the close of a shopping center where the Moroccan tea house was located in. Mayor Van der Knaap does not preclude the manager there has had a hand.

Moroccan-Dutch youths then cease cars on fire and challenged the police out. Last Monday two officers were confronted by a group of fifty young people and sparked an increasingly grim atmosphere. Also in the evenings and nights afterward it was restless. Arrests were made, of rioters between 15 and 20 years old. The mayor says that his 12-year boys involved in the riots.

By Editorial Telegraaf.nl/Wouter the Winther Photo: Dutch Height