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Nachtschattenreich
Cannabis Sacrament Minister
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 Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:58 am Post subject: Disturbing streetviolence in the Netherlands |
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When this came on my radar this week, it was just a short message with only a handful of hits in the newssearch:
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(Tue Mar 13) Police arrested two people last night after disturbances broke out in the Ondiep area of Utrecht. One police officer was slightly injured when stones were thrown at a police car.
The trouble was apparently connected to the shooting dead of an Ondiep man by police on Sunday night. It began when a large group of youths began to move through the neighbourhood, throwing stones and setting small fires. Attempts were made to set a police station on fire and its windows were smashed.
Riot police were brought in to disperse the gang. Mayor Annie Brouwer-Korf has appealed for calm. |
Various news agency reports have been making vague allegations about social problems in the area and travelling soccer fans, while it became clear that cops have shot a local:
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(Fri March 16) The silent march in memory of Rinie Mulder, the 54-year-old man shot dead by police in Utrecht on Sunday, passed off peacefully on Thursday evening.
Between 1,500 and 2,500 people took part in the march through the neighbourhood of Ondiep, laying flowers at the spot where he died and lighting candles.
The police presence was muted, some 40 locals acted as stewards. Police once again sealed off the area after the event – for the third consecutive night – fearing a repeat of the trouble earlier in the week. On Tuesday night 135 people were arrested, on Wednesday a further 19.
March organiser Gradus Kwarten told tv programme Pauw & Witteman that local residents planned to organise their own neighbourhood patrols to keep order in the neighbourhood because the police were not active enough.
Details of how Mulder died have been sketchy. Police say he was waving a knife and was shot dead by a police officer who felt threatened. But some residents say he was helping a pregnant women who was being hassled by youths and had himself called the police. |
So far the only report that has made it through the smokescreen of the commercial media can be found on the blogs.
Here a few accounts that should be taken with a grain of salt, since any of them may serve any agenda, just as in the commercial media:
Snouck Hurgron reports:
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| In the Utrecht neighbourhood of Ondiep saw riots in the past two days after the police shot a man, Rini Mulder. The man had been fighting with a group of immigrant youths who were intimidating the Ondiep residents on Sunday. They had attacked a pregnant Dutch woman. When police arrived Mr. Mulder raised his arm to indicate that he had called for them. A policeman shot and killed him. The policeman is a Muslim, like the youth that was raising hell. |
Klein Verzet:
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It’s amazing how repressive the police measures are. When ‘youths’ where involved Dutch government never took such measures, the tough repressive action seem reserved for the native Dutch folks.
From Monday evening the police totally locked down the whole neighborhood of the police killing. Police installed metal fences that closed of all streets to the neighborhood. Riot police coming from all parts of the Netherlands are patrolling the streets. Nobody is allowed to enter the neighborhood. Television news reports that not even the caretakers of the disabled and elderly are allowed too visit their clients, although these people need daily assistance.
TV news also showed images of mass arrest of by standers who where just looking. The police arrested old housewives and other innocent looking bystanders. They were cuffed and deported to other parts of the country. One can only wonder, how much more confidence the people in the neighborhood will get in a government that does not protect them but arrests them… |
Islam in Europe:
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| The group of rioters gathered together around 6pm at the corner were Mulder was shot. The incident happened after a scuffle with immigrant youth. Mulder was shot outside his door. Mulder and the other residents had complained for months about nuisance caused by the youth. |
What is going on in Utrecht? There was a similiar incident here last year, when a German policeman shot a Lebanese Muslim who was attacking visitors on the parking lot of a monastery with a hammer, which never was reported internationally. This time the religious affiliation of the cop seems to have caused him to shot at the wrong person.
As for the Cannabis aspect of all this, these events show an alarming degree of paranoia on the side of the authorities. If police paranoia breaks through at full force in the Netherlands, don´t ask how long the coffeshop system* might survive. |
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