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Once again, Jewish life in the Transvaal district in Leeuwarden was in the spotlight with the laying of 29 stumbling blocks. The names of the Jewish residents who were taken from their homes were mentioned at nine addresses. Except the Suskind family. Father, mother and son decided to end their lives themselves in 1940.
First, the heat already threw a spanner in the works, and now at the resit there are riots. Reason for Comenius Maple and Forum from Leeuwarden to rebook the planned trip to Paris to Berlin at lightning speed. Director Margreet Rierink explains.
A large fire stain can still be seen in the middle of the Sneeuwbalstraat in Amsterdam-Noord. Pallets were on fire here last night. Municipal cleaners are busy covering the traces of a new evening full of unrest. Last night, stones and glass bottles were thrown at the police and fires were set on the streets and in garbage containers.
A 55-year-old man from Rijen has been sentenced to five years in prison for the serious sexual abuse of young children in front of a camera. The man allegedly paid money for watching live abuse of children from poor countries, which was perpetrated at his request. A special investigative team of the police received a report from the United States in March this year that a Dutch user was using multiple accounts on online platforms searched for livestreams of child abuse.
The student at Maastricht University, who was previously thought to have acknowledged involvement in the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 on a video, appears to have been misquoted. In the Instagram video, he seems to be saying “ This is me,” pointing to masked jihadists on a television. The NOS now establishes that he speaks Arabic in the video, and not English, and also that he does not acknowledge any involvement. Many media reported at the end of September that the student had been suspended by Maastricht University.
Minister Mirjam Sterk (CDA) of Youth does not want to conduct an independent investigation into the placement of youth care young people in a Dutch family home in Spain. She will let the House of Representatives know. Even after new reports today, she remains with that point of view. Experts believe that research is needed after Nieuwsuur investigated the abuses in the shelter.
Dutch churches are calling on local parishes to provide temporary housing for status holders in places like vacant rectories or church annexes. The 'Actie Onderdak' initiative was launched by the Council of Churches in the Netherlands, which represents 19 Christian organizations. Through this effort, the churches aim to help address the national refugee housing shortage.
Projections can be seen every evening at the Oldehove in Leeuwarden. What starts for collage artist Marleen Stoelwinder with cut-out images from a magazine, for example, is coming to a big screen. For Stoelwinder, this is where the charm of the project lies. What starts on her work table now appears on one of Fryslân's most famous buildings. “That cat really shows up big. Those mice, of course. So you can also get out of the way his bandages.”
For twenty years, extreme treatment methods in Spain Dutch organisations sent young people with behavioural problems to a Dutch 'family home' in Spain. There they had to deal with extreme treatment methods. Experts speak of "structural abuse and child torture". Major youth care providers, municipalities and youth protection organizations knew about the approach in the house, which in a period of twenty years dozens of received millions of euros in Dutch care money.
127,000 euros can be distributed by the municipality of Leeuwarden for plans that young people have for the municipality. The registration has now been closed and has yielded thirty-three plans.
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