Loitering De Banne at most problematic of the city

This made mayor Eberhard van der Laan announced Thursday during a meeting with local councilors, who wanted to know how this problem should be addressed in the Banne, after residents this month had beaten the alarm.

Six young people from that group that the residents in the Banne plaguing among the top-600 of criminal offenders in the city that has the grain of the municipality. Among them is also a highly problematic boy who belongs to the so-called top-400.

Initiative to Stopera
Van der Laan said he has mobilized additional police officers, but its capabilities are limited because the coalition with D66, VVD and SP reducing safety. He must, he says, with less budget to do more. However, Van der Laan said that the Stopera in this serious matter initiative pulls in and the issue does not leave the district.

Labour councilor Sofyan Mbarki (PvdA), which broached the issue in the council, will there soon will be a tough approach to relieve the neighborhood. At the same time he wants, there is a social program, including parents of young people come into the picture. The VVD wants samenscholings- and an exclusion order, which dismissed the mayor, while the Green is just spoke out against harsh and hasty measures.

Group of 44 young people
Following his many violent incidents of vandalism, intimidation and threats, where motorists were put out of their car and robbed, and one was forced to move under the pressure of arson and threats. According to the police, who put two teams totaling twenty on the matter, it is a group of 44 young people.

Where the group is kept rather busy with burglaries, residents are now beset with trouble and many direct confrontations.

The district has taken various measures. There are cameras placed and neighborhood security teams were deployed. That was not enough.

Mbarki Wednesday in the district with youth workers from Dock talked and played football with the youth, who was younger than afterall. "Nuisance comes from older boys with expensive coats, expensive shoes and expensive watches. That afternoon nap and stir overnight."

Sherrif Marcouch
According Mbarki is the same approach which time the "sheriff of Slotervaart 'Ahmed Marcouch applied after riots on August Allebeplein West. "The kind of housing, the atmosphere and the attitude of the people on the street were the same as in the Banne. I was in puberty and lived not far from there."

Dilan Yesilgöz (VVD) thinks that Amsterdam is better to sit on top. "I have spoken with neighbors and wants as residents reported making nuisance or harassment dze be immediately followed. I want the police are visible, step out and make contact if they passed a group of young people from driving. They show who here the boss. "

By editorial Het parool: Photo: REUTERS