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Netherlands: racist crime figures released

01 March 1993

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The chief police officer in Amsterdam, Eric Nordholt, claimed on a radio programme that black youth from Surinam, the Antilles and Morocco committed eighty per cent of street crime and warned of LA-style riots. However, a city police spokesman admitted that the figures only referred to suspects - not those arrested and convicted - and that figures for all crimes were not available as the police only analysed street crime on the basis of a suspect's racial origin. As if to justify the release of these figures the spokesman said: "This is a deliberate choice, we want to confront politicians with this serious problem and call on them to do something about it".

Inter Press Service, 1.2.93.

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