The devastating conclusion of researcher Corrine Dettmeijer that the system of assistance and also the judiciary failed to protect 14-year-old Famke, who was shot dead by her father last year, has hit hard in the Stopera.
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“I thought the report was a sledgehammer,” Mayor Halsema says in AT5’s The Conversation with the Mayor. “I talked to the mother and stepfather in January and I knew in broad outline what happened to them. But seeing it written down on paper, how a total of eleven aid agencies may have done their best individually, but in total they actually have the girl insufficient help.”
On December 28 last year, at the beginning of the afternoon, two bodies were found in a house on Eerste Atjehstraat in East. After investigation, it turned out to be 14-year-old Famke and her father. The 52-year-old man first shot and killed his daughter, after which he committed suicide.
Former rapporteur for Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence Corrine Dettmeijer, at the request of mayor Halsema and alderman for health care Simone Kukenheim (D66) research into the long history that preceded the drama. The mother, who had not lived with Famke’s father for years, rang the bell time and again to no avail.
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“I think the main problem is that there are eleven different organizations that do not cooperate enough”
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Halsema: “In the emergency services, the cries of the mother were not heard sufficiently and it was not noticed that the father had delusions and was not in order and, as described in the report, people have always believed the father.”
The Parent Child Team (OKT), Safe Home, the Child Protection Board and the Youth Protection, among others, have failed. “DSince there are eleven different organizations that do not cooperate enough, I think that is the main problem,” said the mayor.
For example, there was too much mistrust between the authorities, as a result of which referrals were not made or were not referred on time. Halsema: “Mpeople have turned around and the wrong authorities have had jurisdiction for too long. And the authorities that could have intervened, for example the girl could have been placed under supervision much earlier and then there would have been control – that did not happen.”
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Flowers for Famke at the house in the Eerste Atjehstraat
The workload and shortages in youth care also played a part in this. “heyIt’s not an excuse, it’s definitely about responsibility. The administrative responsibility that lies with me and with Alderman Kukenheim and the responsibility of the emergency services. But if we want to make sure it gets better, we will have to take into account the shortages, the pressure on youth care, because otherwise we can’t take measures to help prevent it.”
Halsema and Kukenheim want to take the time for those measures to stay away from “the reflex” to come up with extra rules that could backfire again. In the meantime, the mayor has also discussed the report with Famke’s mother and stepfather, who have already said in Het Parool that they find the conclusions painful.
Halsema: “I doI think they will say something about it in the press themselves, but I think such a report gives a very mixed feeling. Because you immediately see yourself confirmed, which you have always known, so that will also give some satisfaction, but at the same time it is described in a very businesslike way how everyone has failed and how disastrous the result has been.”
Watch the entire Conversation with the Mayor below:
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