New rules on teenage loitering
Legislation allowing local councils to ban groups of youths from congregating in certain areas are to be tightened up, justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin told MPs on Friday.
On Thursday a court in Utrecht found seven youths not guilty of illegal assembly. Judges said they could only be banned from loitering in a group if they threaten passers-by.
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