Earlier this month, 17-year-old Rivaldo was shot at a football field in Holendrecht. The arrested suspect is 16 years old. That there has now also been a shot in his street, Mike Best in it. “Yes, because of course it happened for our house. But I am not even shocked that the weather happened, I am shocked that they are children again. Very young teenagers who walk with pistols or with a knife. With weapons. That is sad.”
Mike has three children herself. They are 3, 10 and 16 years old. He should not think that the bullet had accidentally ended up in his front garden and had hit one of his children. “That is scary. You can protect them until … I don’t even come out of my words. That thought suddenly shot through my head. My children just have to be able to walk around freely, wherever they want.”
Safety risk
Mayor Halsema announced today through a story on her Instagram ‘that her thoughts are with the victim and his family’. “What a horror, such a young boy seriously injured, so much violence. A week after the death of Lisa and three weeks after the death of Rivaldo.”
Partly due to the shooting incident, the mayor has it safety risk that had been in force by two weeks since 15 August. The safety risk area runs from Holendrecht Zuid via the H-neighborhood to the K neighborhood and part of Johan Cruijffboulevard.