The 42-year-old Lotte Smit first sounded the bell two weeks ago by telling her story NH. She is also present on Wednesday evening, together with her 2-year-old son. “I thought I was the only one who experienced so much nuisance, but you should look,” says Lotte.
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Almost the entire neighborhood is burdened by the inconvenience. Menno van Beek has been living in the Spoorbuurt for more than eight years and sees it getting worse every day. “They don’t maintain,” he says. “They are allowed to use (drugs, ed.) In the stronghold (adjacent park) and then come to cause nuisance in our neighborhood. There is even a woman threatened by those children. People like this do not belong here,” he concludes.
Other local residents also say that they see boats passing by every day that bring the drugs to the homeless. “Dnodoen’s employees see that too, why is there no action?”
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