Cranendonck residents are fed up with ‘stealing asylum seekers’ and are threatening vigilante | Inland

Mayor Roland van Kessel makes an appeal not to take the law into his own hands. According to Omroep Brabant, there are noises that residents want to use gangs. There will also be a vigilante of thirty people who will patrol the centers of the municipality.

Resident Peter Looymans is angry. His eleven-year-old son’s bicycle has been stolen. “After the theft, I reported it and posted a photo on Facebook. Three people reported the same description of an asylum seeker in a blue tracksuit and slippers. I find it terrible. These are things we have worked hard for. ”

“It was an expensive bicycle. We are now part of an app group in which many people tell their story. In recent weeks there have been fifty reports of bicycles that have been stolen. About shoplifting and about clothes that have been stolen. I don’t like that, ”the broadcaster quotes him.

In recent weeks, Neighborhood Prevention Cranendonck has received a report of a stolen bicycle almost every day. “On some days even three times a day. We get a lot of signals from local residents who see suspicious people walking,” says Harm van Leuken chairman of the neighborhood watch.

Whether each theft can be linked to the asylum seekers’ center in the village, Van Leuken is not sure. But there are indications that it comes from here. Residents went to the asylum seekers’ center with the police to successfully retrieve their own bicycles. “

There are also other reports of red-acted asylum seekers who stole a bicycle.

” Residents are fed up with the nuisance. We are getting signals that gangs are going to be formed. People want to take matters into their own hands, ” warns Van Leuken.

Father Peter stood at the gate of the AZC for hours. “I have seen bicycles that cost more than four hundred euros. I counted 123. Security guards are talking about asylum seekers who leave without a bicycle and return by bicycle. ”

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