The Netherlands helps the Knokke police with articulate Gooische steppers: ‘My father is a lawyer’ | Inland

Around midnight, some Gooi boys are talking calmly with a Dutch agent on horseback. They ask him where is the best place to party.

photos Robert Hoetink

Knokke-Heist – The Belgian beach town of Knokke is again overrun by Dutch young people from ‘t Gooi. That sometimes goes wrong, so Dutch agents assist their Belgian colleagues. “You have to deal with them more with velvet gloves. If you say ‘it has to be like this and that’, you get the response: ‘My father is a lawyer’.”