Runaway mischief, say young people themselves. But according to other residents, there is more going on in Ede Veldhuizen district. What's the story behind the riots?
At twenty past three is banging on the door. Sija de Jong (47) wakes. She knows right away: "The car."Then they heard wailing alarms. At the door a neighbor."Bad news," he says.
The next day, remember only one number plate and two twisted pieces of steel in her Toyota Avensis Verso.Three other cars go that night also in flames, the last of a total of eleven week.
stopped impoverishment
It seemed to go on in Veldhuizen (18,000 inhabitants) RS. A quarter of the sixties and seventies, as there are dozens in the Netherlands, with drive-inwoningen, flats and residential areas. Nowhere dirt street. The widespread impoverishment has been reduced in recent years to a few streets.
Spotted gallery flats went after riots in 2008 against the ground. With new apartments blocks and the municipal authorities tried to evict the problems. Crime figures walking back 245 offenses in 2014, 144 in 2015. In 2016 there were up to now 76. The burglaries went from hundreds a year to fifty. Certainly, with Sylvester still flying stones through windows, but the 'Moroccan problem "seemed to become more manageable in the district.
Until Sunday, May 1st. Pallets that are at the mall Lindenhorst be fired. The fire can prevent the mall, one week later the demolition, fly in flames.
The next evening fifty mainly Moroccan youth provoke the police. After a conversation with the police officer will most home but remains a club of fifteen. At a quarter to eleven stores the flash in the pan. There riots break out. Windows die, cars are vandalized and set on fire.The police is considering to put in the ME. Two boys are arrested: one had climbed a school, the other threw a stone at a policeman.
Mayor Cees van der Knaap proposes a ban on assembly and noodbevel in. Who has to look for anything in the area, must go. You walk three times with four people on the street, you get a fine of 5,000 euros.
Tuesday night was arrested a leading figure. Furthermore, it is quiet. But then, at half past three at night, totally fly to the other side of the neighborhood three cars on fire. The police put extra people in the days after. It does not help: Friday is the Toyota family De Jong in flames. The ban on assembly is extended. The district is in opposition. There is a march of about one hundred Moroccans against the violence after the Consul General of Morocco came to visit.
Monday May 9 is a strange silence in Veldhuizen. Gone are the cameras. Road also groups of youths. The streets bathed in sunlight. Occasionally, a local police officer on bicycle.Behind the apparent calm brewing discontent.
Veiled mothers with stroller walking quickly if you address them. "You just want to blacken us," says a boy of eighteen. He walks hurriedly, a cigarette in his mouth. "Here, go talk to your colleagues" - he points to a passing police car. Even residents of the predominantly white residential areas rather not talk. Later they get a brick through the window.
demolition mall
Although they do not dominate the streetscape, there are more Moroccans in Veldhuizen than in the rest of Ede (14 vs. 3 percent). They mainly live in the old part, around the small shopping center The Lindenhorst, where after a long delay the demolition work has begun at last. We need a Christian residential community "Peace Horst.
By Editorial Wedding: Niels Mark and Wilfred van de Poll Photo: Koen Verheijden
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