AMSTERDAM : UN EXEMPLE A SUIVRE ! (ROMANICHELS & C°)

The 'scum villages' of Amsterdam: City plans to rehouse anti-social neighbours in caravans under constant police watch (ndlr :"scum"  =  "racaille")

• Plan echoes proposal from controversial right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders for special units to deal with persistent troublemakers (ndlr:  Je vais réserver un "unit" pour mon bon voisin...JPPS)

By Leon Watson

PUBLISHED: 0 4 December 2012


Nuisance neighbours in Amsterdam will be exiled from the city and rehoused in 'scum villages' made up of caravans or containers under constant police supervision.

Holland's capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month course in how to behave.

Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness.

Problem neighbours: The mayor of Amsterdam plans to exile nuisance neighbours from the city and rehouse them in 'scum villages'

Eberhard van der Laan, Amsterdam's Labour mayor, has tabled the £810,000 plan to tackle 13,000 complaints of anti-social behaviour every year.
He complained that long-term harassment often leads to law abiding tenants, rather than their nuisance neighbours, being driven out, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The project also involves setting up a special hotline and system for victims to report their problems to the authorities.

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The new punishment housing camps have been dubbed 'scum villages' because the plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the leader of a populist Dutch Right-wing party, for special units to deal with persistent troublemakers.

'Repeat offenders should be forcibly removed from their neighbourhood and sent to a village for scum,' he suggested last year. 'Put all the trash together.'

Whilst denying that the new projects would be punishment camps for 'scum', a spokesman for the city mayor stressed that the special residential units would aim to enforce good behaviour.

Controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders, right, called for special units to deal with persistent troublemakers

'The aim is not to reward people who behave badly with a new five-room home with a south-facing garden. This is supposed to be a deterrent,' he said.

The tough approach taken by Mr van der Laan appears to jar with Amsterdam's famous tolerance for prostitution and soft drugs but reflects hardening attitudes to routine anti-social behaviour that falls short of criminality.

Shipping container homes are already in use across Holland. Ten have been set aside for the anti-social behaviour project. Others are already used for student housing (pictured)

There are already several small-scale trial projects in the Netherlands, including in Amsterdam, where 10 shipping container homes have been set aside for persistent offenders, living under 24-hour supervision from social workers and police.

Under the new policy, from January next year, victims will no longer have to move to escape their tormentors, who will be moved to the new units.
A team of district 'harassment directors' have already been appointed to spot signals of problems and to gather reports of nuisance tenants.

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