“Where does the sexualization of children come from?” Is on a poster along the A58. For months, or perhaps for years, the remarkable poster has been hanging on a viaduct near Oirschot. At the bottom of the poster is linked to a telegram group and a streaming site, with an extreme right-wing neo-Nazi documentary. How does that poster get there? And why is it still there, even after a whole weekend of roadworks?
“View the documentary Europe, The Last Battle. Can you handle the truth? “Is it on it. In the middle we see a photo of a child with a flamboyant headdress with pink springs on it and bare shoulders. At the bottom of the poster is a link to a telegram group, with a QR code in the corner, with which you end up on a streaming site.
The links lead you to a rather controversial documentary series about the Second World War. The video on the streaming site takes more than 12 hours and is full of anti -Semitic conspiracies. The Holocaust is denied in it, it is claimed that Nazis did self -defense and that Stalin was held in his grip by Jewish women. A scooter chain, which last link is also hung a link with child sexualization. Without further context about what this has to do with each other.
“If it is offensive, strong distracting or racist, we have to remove it.”
Hanging this along the public road is not just allowed. Similar posters or graffiti can be quite offensive and Rijkswaterstaat draws the border there. “Sometimes you can still see it as a kind of art, but if it is hurtful, strongly distracting or racist, we have to remove it,” says a spokesperson.
How those posters or graffiti are coming, is also often a mystery for the body. “That must almost have been done with a ladder,” the body responds. There are many cameras with the A58, but they are mainly focused on the flow of traffic. There is no attention to vandalism. “But if we see something like that happening, we will immediately send a road inspector.”
“The road must be closed off for a longer period of time, so that our cleaners can work safely.”
At the traffic center they did not have the print in mind yet. Not even while it has been hanging there for months. In addition, the text or the image must carry a certain seriousness: the removal is an entire operation. “The road must be deposited for a longer period of time, so that our cleaners can work safely,” explains Rijkswaterstaat. So a lot of delays. And they don’t like that.
But the process, where the poster hangs, was dropped off this weekend. From Friday evening to Monday morning there was no traffic on the A58 from Tilburg to Eindhoven. “Only when we needed the left lane for work traffic,” the body continues. “So then we can’t safely reach it.”
According to the spokesperson, the poster, May 14, during new activities, will still be removed. “Or at least black sprayed, if the removal does not work well. That night work is planned in the central reservation.”