From the data of a
Ministry of Justice department (DT&V) it can be concluded that four out of
five of the 1300 minors whose request for asylum has been refused still stay in
the Netherlands.
In the town of Rijswijk an anti-Israel congress is planned from
8-10 December. The participants request among others the freeing of Marwan
Barghouti a Palestinian terrorist who has been condemned to five life sentences
in Israel. The party Beter for Rijswijk has asked asks the town’s mayor to prohibit
the gathering. The leader of its faction in the municipal council has said that
these people support murderers and terrorists and are a security risk.
According to the Inspectorate of Social Affairs and Employment,
594 companies have used spraying gravel polluted with asbestos in spraying and maintenance
activities. The gravel was supplied by the company Eurogrit. Estimates are that
the damage caused to spraying companies could be in the order of magnitude of 200 million Euro. The Eurogrit
Company says that the quantities of asbestos are so small that according to
experts there are no health risks.
The Volkskrant daily has devoted a large article to an
international conference of an extreme right-wing group called Erkenbrand. The great
majority present were Dutchmen, most of whom have higher education. They focus
on race and realism and mention the beginning of the rise of the revolution in
Charlottesville (USA), where a right-wing extremist killed an anti-fascist. The
group includes Neo-Nazis. One of them said to the paper, I wouldn’t shed a tear
if the trains to the east start running again. This is a reference to the Nazi
transport of the Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
Gangs from Albania have become increasingly important in
Dutch crime. They are mainly involved major offenses in organized crime. The head
of the Rotterdam police, Frank Paauw, has recently returned from a visit to
Albania for the purpose of discussing illegal travelers and organized crime. In
2015, there were about 300 incidents with Albanian suspects, a year later in
2016 that had increased to 1000. Paauw said that trade in cocaine and human
trafficking are their core business. In
the Netherlands, the number of official Albanian citizens is 800. The number of
suspected criminals is almost as high. Police and justice officials in
Amsterdam have suggested that Albanians should be required to obtain a visa
when traveling to countries in the Schengen area. 
After the soccer team of Morocco qualified for the 2018 World
Championships in Russia Moroccan fans of the team assembled in the problematic
Schilderswijk neighbourhood of the Hague. Police intervention was necessary
also the special Mobile Police unit and police dogs were present. Coca cola
tins and firework were thrown at the police. Several arrests were made. 
In an article by Cnaan Liphshiz, the European
correspondent of the Jewish Telegraph Agency, he exposes how the
parliamentarians of the Muslim DENK Party have maligned him. In questions
submitted to the Minister of General Affairs and the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, they claimed that as a former member of the Israeli military, he was
part of an effort by Israel to “spy on pro-Palestine activists in Europe.” The Dutch
pro-Israel Lobby CIDI asked members of the Dutch Parliament’s Foreign Affairs
Committee to speak out against DENK. None have, nor did the Dutch journalist
union of which Liphshiz is a member. 
According to foster care organization
Pleegzorg The Netherlands may soon face a shortage in foster families. The
organization has no explanation for the decrease. Approximately 3 thousand
families per year sign up to foster children, but in 2016 this number suddenly
dropped. Pleegzorg Nederland is looking for other ways to deal with this
looming shortage. 
Dutch novelist Leon de Winter has written an article in
which he says that the appointment of Sigrid Kaag (D66 Party) as Minister of Foreign
Trade and Development raises major question. Kaag is married to a Palestinian
ambassador who for eight years was a deputy minister of the highly corrupt Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat. He says that the paying of Dutch tax money by Kaag’s
ministry to the Palestinian Authority, with which her husband is closely
related, is problematic. 
