Eindhoven mayor calls for action on drugs-related violence

Eindhoven’s mayor Rob van Gijzel has asked justice minister Ivo Opstelten to help him end a flurry of drug-related violence in the region by making more police officers available.


Over the past two weeks, there have been five shooting incidents in the city, all of which appear to be connected to organised crime and marijuana cultivation, Van Gijzel said.
In the last incident at the weekend, an estimated 100 bullets were pumped into the house of a suspected drugs baron, according to the Telegraaf.
Van Gijzel says the police are working flat out to end the violence, leaving a shortage of manpower to deal with break ins and robberies.
In nearby Helmond, mayor Fons Jacobs has been forced to go into hiding after threats from drugs criminals.
In the Telegraaf, MPs from the ruling CDA and VVD called on the minister to make parts of Limburg and Brabant subject to special police powers in an effort to end the violence.
The anti-Islam PVV want the army to be sent in. ‘We have to clean up and get 60 of them banged up in jail within two weeks,’ MP Hero Brinkman said.

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