Dutch Family Terrorised and Driven Out of Amsterdam by Moroccans

After years of constant harassment by boys from the neighborhood, the family of Rene Smit, from New West has had enough of it. They want to leave Amsterdam behind, and start looking for a house in Badhoevedorp .

Rene Smit explains why. "I’m doing it mostly for my children, they can’t walk safely in the streets. It started with an aggravated assault on my 14 year old daughter. Then my oldest daughter was robbed of her bicycle with a gun to her head. Sometime later one of my daughters gave a party at home. A couple of those guys insisted, uninvited, on entering the house. They demolished everything and stole a laptop and a mobile phone."

Last year Smit filed a complaint at the police station of New West district. The police, according to him, had still done nothing at all to change the matter since then. Last month, his 14-year-old daughter was robbed of 70 euros and then threatened by the same boy.

"It does not stop. We are already sending our daughter of 4 to school in Badhoevedorp and are trying hard to find a home. With pain in our hearts we have to leave Amsterdam," said Smit. “I'm the last one to judge the entire Moroccan community lumped all together. But these bad apples need to be addressed too.”

AT5 reported last week about a group of 10 young people who were arrested on the Osdorper Ban. The ten were systematically terrorizing the neighborhood. The mayor of Amsterdam district West, Achmed Baâdoud, said he was “busy with a plan to change the situation.”