Four individuals arrested during a police raid in the Rotterdam neighborhood of Kralingen early Saturday remain in custody, authorities said. He was treated at a hospital and remains in custody, facing suspicion of involvement in the murder of a 33-year-old Amsterdam man found dead on Clauskindereweg. The raid is part of an ongoing investigation into the death of a 33-year-old …
Rotterdam’s ban on street harassment conflicts with freedom of speech rules, appeal court judges in The Hague said on Thursday. The appeal court said that while there is sufficient evidence the man had done what was claimed, such forms of street intimidation should never have been ruled illegal by the council. Research by Rotterdam council last year found that 94% …
Women who go to the abortion clinic in Rotterdam are increasingly being harassed by anti-abortion protesters, according to clinic director Gerrit Zomerdijk. "They speak to women, stand there with small dolls depicting a fetus, with a poster of an unborn child on their stomach or with a mouth taped shut", Zomerdijk said to the local broadcaster. Almost all 14 abortion …
Amsterdam’s much heralded ban on street intimidation is unlikely to come into effect in practice, the Parool reported on Tuesday. The city’s new mayor Femke Halsema has a number of objections to the ban, which was enshrined in the city’s bylaws in 2017 but has not yet been fully enacted. ‘You have to use education and get rid of the …
