“This is really terribly tragic, this should not happen at all.” A woman came to the neighborhood center to attend the evening. She didn’t know Rivaldo herself, but she still wants to show her support to his loved ones. A man supplements her: “We all have children, and when you consider that this can happen to your child, something must happen.”
Among the nearly 150 visitors are also dozens of young people. “It is nice to hear all at the same time what to do,” says a boy, who looks at all the flowers that have been laid near the football field where the shooting took place. He knew Rivaldo from school.
Search or a youth club
Although the city district stabbed the evening with the impact that the boy’s death has on the residents of Southeast, the discussion is drawn wider. People come to the community center because they want to know what is going to happen now: “This has to stop, this is no longer possible.”
Out of respect for the family and to retain the confidentiality of the neighborhood, journalists are not welcome during the meeting within the meeting. But before and afterwards it becomes clear how the conversation went.
District chairman Tanja Jadnanansing has a “heavy heart”, she says when she walks outside. “It’s nice to see how many people were there, but also tragic.” Visitors are angry and frustrated. A woman hopes for more supervision in the neighborhood: “Everyone must be searched,” she says.
Paternity
But according to a man it is in something completely different: according to him it is the concern for the youth where things go wrong. “When a child turns 12, he comes home with a Jonko in his mouth. When a child turns 14 he is in charge, when he turns 16, the child has a gun and at the age of 17 he kills someone.”