Computers and tv are essential, say bailiffs

A computer, television and fridge should be counted among life´s essentials and not seized for sale by bailiffs, the Dutch bailiffs organisation says in Friday´s Trouw.


Until now bailiffs have been allowed to seize everything but a bed, food and books from debtors, the paper says.

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