‘Leave street-corner youths alone’

Officials are bringing in too many expensive and repressive rules to deal with street corner gangs (hangjongeren), the government’s social development council RMO said on Thursday.


In particular, a distinction needs to be made between real troublemaking and just hanging around, the RMO said.

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