The police arrested three people tonight in the Hoogeveense district Krakeel. A group of young people and adults seemed to have provided it in an apartment above the De Grote Beer shopping center.
According to eyewitnesses, the door was kicked in and ‘fireworks bombs’ were thrown in. The windows were already thrown in earlier this week.
The group that was at the shopping center consisted mainly of young people, but there were also a number of adults. The police are visible and invisibly present. A little after 10 p.m. the police decided that it had been enough and the square was emptied with the help of dozens of agents. Everyone who was present is summoned to go home, and it seems to be responded to.
After disturbances between 20 and 24 February, the police were already extra sharp on possible new unrest. The shops in the De Grote Beer shopping center in the Hoogeveen district Krakeel have locked the doors extra early tonight.
Last weekend, agents were called in several times to put nuisance in the district. Mayor Martijn Breukelman spoke of “multiple reports of (youth) nuisance” in which the responsible persons were coating in one home. Police and enforcement have been called up a number of times to restore order.
The situation escalated in the evening of Monday 24 February. In a letter to the city council, the mayor writes about ‘throwing stones and objects to the home, kicking in access doors and attempts to enter the building’. Agents were ‘insulted and provoked’. The minor inhabitants of the attacked home were given shelter with family.