At least five hundred demonstrators gathered in Rotterdam on Sunday afternoon to demonstrate against racism within the police force. They stood with banners at the Marconiplein police station. According to the police, the meeting was quiet and orderly.
The protest was organized by the Rotterdam branch of party BIJ1. Many people are angry about the various racist and discriminatory messages in app groups of the Rotterdam police that have been leaked recently.
There is a lot of anger among Rotterdammers about the apps. According to the protesters, agents using these ideas would not be able to “keep people of color safe”.
A petition asking for the dismissal of the agents in question has been signed nearly 7,000 times. There are also calls for the dismissal of police chief Fred Westerbeke, who did not fire the officers after the revelations.
Parents of the girl Humeyra are also present
The officers in question have received a written reprimand from Westerbeke. He calls this a “yellow card”. Westerbeke does not want to fire the agents because they are good employees who have never been complained about, he reported in conversation with Rijnmond.
The parents of the Rotterdam girl Humeyra were also present. The officers in question would have applauded after the murder of the girl that there was “one Turk less”. It concerns a group of five agents who worked on these types of texts in the app group. The group was called the Jan Smit group.
It was previously known that people with a migrant background were referred to as “cancer people”, “cunt Africans” and “pauperallochtonen” in the online conversations. Westerbeke previously described these messages as “discriminatory, racist and hurtful”.
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