Sounding board group Zaanse Surinamers combative after swastikas: “Would love to talk”

Lede said live on NH Radio on Thursday afternoon that these kinds of actions no longer surprise his organization and him. “We know that these things happen. They happen more often than we should expect. The question then arises: what can we do about this?”

The sounding board group adopts a combative attitude. Lede says they are not going to give up. “If you look at the perpetrators: they are often people who are frustrated for whatever reason. You also see that there is usually a lack of knowledge about the history of our multicultural society. We could focus on that.”

He hopes, given the spelling error in the message ‘White lives mathers’, that the perpetrator has acted rashly. “But the fact that a swastika (swastika, ed.) has been applied indicates that we have to be careful with that. Our reaction is always that we want to know who is doing this and why.”

Lede has a call to the one behind the slogans and swastikas. “Make yourself known, because we would love to talk to you. So that we can find out what’s behind this.”

Wishful thinking?

You could explain that as a vain hope, but he doesn’t want that. “I have spoken to perpetrators about this a number of times. Then you notice that there are possibilities to do something about the lack of knowledge.”

Watch in the video below how cleaners from the municipality try to get the slogans off the wall. Text continues below the video.