Local residents are more than tired of rioting youth at the fair in Amsterdam-Osdorp: “They are just like rats”
Local residents in Amsterdam-Osdorp are quite fed up with the riots at the fair in their neighborhood. On Sunday and Monday evenings, young people threw fireworks and set fire to a garbage can. Osdorpers find the behavior of the youth outrageous.
Due to the riots, it was decided on Sunday that the closing time at the fair would be brought forward from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m. Still, things got grim after 7pm Monday night. “Dozens of young people still exist in the area around,” a police saying tells us. “They also set off heavily illegal fireworks and committed destruction.” This made the police secret to carry out accusations; young people are driven apart to leave the peace.
The riots made a big impression on Osdorp residents with children. Some of these parents let NH Radio know that they no longer want their child to go to the fair. There are also parents who let it be known that their species can only go to the fair if they are there themselves.
‘Scandalous’
Local residents from Osdorp do not understand the running young people and sympathize with the fairground operators who have had blow after blow during the corona crisis. “Outrageous. Those people have already had it so hard and they have to close at 7 pm,” she says, uncomprehending. “They’re like rats. They come crawling from everywhere.”
Another neighbor says he doesn’t understand either. “Terrible. I’ve lived here for 37 years, but I’ve never experienced this,” she says. “You can’t even go out with your grandchild in the afternoon. If you even look around you a little bit, you get a look back like: ‘What do you want cancer whore?’ That’s how they are. And they’re boys aged 12, 13. Are I sure? Well, it gives me palpitations.”
A third local resident had a view of the rioting youth from her home. “There was a lot of nuisance. A garbage can was set on fire right in front of my door.” She has the idea that the riot youth was only concerned with provoking the police. “I don’t get it. If those young people could understand me, maybe I could understand it, but now I don’t get it.”