COMMON SENSE PREVAILS. Or does it?
As of July 1st, a fully trained emergency physician with 2 years experience must be present at the ER, 24/7. Instead of only residents and students.

22 regional hospitals don’t meet the requirements. Measure postponed.

Rector Rianne Letschert isn’t lying awake over the fact that MU has slipped to #200 in the 2018 QS World University Rankings. She has a new hobby, local politics. Helping forge the new coalition. And a politician she is. This is her reaction to recent events.

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UN Report: 1000 children in Dutch prisons without any form of trial.

This is the size 36 sneaker ”found in front of club Backstage”.
Amir’s foot size: 30.
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TAX COLLECTION, WIL MEIJER STYLE

March 29th, 2017

Tax inspector Wil Meijer arrives in Voerendaal this foggy spring morning, at the address where he's about to collect a back tax. He rings the bell and when the occupant opens the door, Meijer asks him to pay the outstanding amount, on the spot.

The man says he doesn't have such kind of cash on hand. That is the cue right there. Meijer unleashes the army search unit he brought along, a police unit, a customs unit with a dog and his own Revenue Service unit. To ransack the place for valuables equal to the amount of the debt.

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In the reassuring presence of the King's Commissioner: the ''assault victim'', Ellen Lemmens. #TheMaastrichtFiles https://t.co/KZZPfExcOU pic.twitter.com/LeK78uqudG

— Eduard van Diemen (@eduardvandiemen) 6 april 2017

Punishing officers who deliberately falsify police reports? No is the consensus among judges.

The Supreme Court in 2013 ruled that procedural errors, accidental or deliberate, are a pain in the ass and virtually eradicated the concept altogether.

Motion to suppress faulty police evidence is history. Some defense lawyers have tried, the request is standardly denied. The courts just bent their line of reasoning a bit, euphemizing falsification into a typo: "acquitting lawbreakers on technicalities doesn't go down very well with the general public anymore." (NRC, 6 Sept 2017)

(Dian Brouwer, Mr. aug. 2014)

NSCR REPORT: Employers prefer native white ex-felon over applicant of non-western descent with no criminal record.

It was a collaborative study of the NSCR, UU, VU and Radboud University. The question: what are the chances on the job market for ex-felons? The reseachers sent out 520 mock application letters to real job openings.

The letters were all identical, each ‘applicant’ had the same set of skills. In the resumés they systematically varied the type of crime – violent crime, property crime and sex crime – and no crime. Another variable was ethnicity.

(Un)expected conclusion: if your name is Johan or Kees and you were convicted of a violent crime, there’s a 28% chance you’ll be invited for a job interview. Is your name Youssef or N'gunda and you’re a law-abiding citizen of the Netherlands, the prospect of getting a positive reaction is 9%.

Talking about bias. The Judiciary of the Netherlands: 99.9% white.

Researcher Bauke Koekkoek singlehandedly dismantled the police policy of picking up ”confused persons”. Police registered 75.000 incidents in 2016 alone. ”In reality only thirty percent involve people with signs of mental problems”, says Koekkoek. ”The term is a catch-all for anyone and everyone who shows deviant or objectionable behaviour.”

Chief Aalbersberg laid down the terminology in a mission statement. ”Keeping the peace & quiet” became a goal in itself, at which point we entered that other zone, where the police raid homes ”because the blinds are down”. The couple living there was arguing too loud, according to a neighbour. The woman was thrown in a cell for the night. Her boyfriend for several nights more. Swalmen, Roermond area.

Other ”nuisance” makers were dropped off at one of those GGD affiliated institutions, and kept there. Mayor signs the warrant.

On the upside, individuals like Koekkoek can make the difference. Police started registering in 2011, but have largely abandoned the practice under pressure, and indeed, the unrelenting stream of news articles about confused people has dissipated visibly.

FIRST TWEET EVER.

just setting up my twttr

— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006

The Ladies of the Law Faculty connected way back in the early 90’s. Malva Driessen and Wendelien Elzinga pictured here as a member of the Emancipation Commission, MU.

Elzinga, top row, left.

Driessen, bottom row, second from left

This is the infamous little drawing by the hand of the winemaker’s wife, Luca Hulst. A ”situation sketch” that is part of a court record of a session presided by judge W.E Elzinga, Nov 5th 2007. Hulst was ”sworn in” as a crown witness, and testified about an “assault”.

For two years she kept quiet about it. Didn’t tell her friends, her children, nor her parents. Until the record was published in 2009. Which brought about a short circuit in the Maastricht courthouse, and in the Apostelhoeve’s inner circle. What was the case? Mrs. Hulst never set foot in the court building. The judge wrote a story in the category fiction.

Someone at the Bisschopsingel 53 Police Station had a great idea months earlier: wouldn’t the notable winemaker’s wife be the ideal person to lay down a reliable crown witness testimony of an ”assault”? Whoever put the question, Luca Hulst-Nijsten said yes. She didn’t have to sign. She only had to nod her head. 

First person narrator in that testimony is officer Jan Ten Brink and he formalized it in 39-page police file 2006145758. Which later would be used as the basis for the Nov. 5th court session. As we know now, the court room, besides judge, DA and clerk, was empty, but the documents spell out quite accurately what happened there, though the devil was in the details.

Elzinga “interrupted” proceedings to “reflect on further action”. Here she switched over to private mode. She got on the phone with fellow judge and colleague at the Law Faculty, Malva Driessen – whose name had surfaced as accuser in the case – asking for some input to produce a believable court record.

That resulted in this scribble about a situation that never happened. It seems as if Hulst is saying: ”if I do this minimalistic thingy that says absolutely nothing, they can’t hold it against me”. She drew it sometime later that week, at her kitchen table. 

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The only existing film images of Anne Frank. She lived at Merwedeplein 37 from 1933 to July 6th 1942, the day they went into hiding in the secret annex of the warehouse, Prinsengracht 263.

1600 teenage girls, victims of forced prostitution, are locked up in closed institutions to ''protect them against their exploiters, and against themselves.'' (Mondriaan/L1)

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CHECKS AND BALANCES

Joost Italianer is a lawyer. He works for one of the bigger firms, Nauta Dutilh, in Amsterdam. He represents several major accounting firms on fraud related issues and criminal investigations. The website also states he conducted a large internal investigation for a major Dutch bank.

Member of the Capital Market Advisory Committee of the Authority for the Financial Markets. Thrown in casually almost, the firm mentions that Italianer is a judge at the Haarlem Criminal Court.

Update:

The Politician of the Year has presented his manifesto for the upcoming parliamentary elections, on one single sheet of paper: ”de-islamize” the country altogether, ”strip the girls of their headscarves, close islamic schools and mosques, and ban the Koran”.

The wonder boy of the left on his turn published an essay on how to achieve a more empathic society, ”the search for identity and common ground”. Not exactly sure what he means by common ground.

Wilders & Klaver swapping banana bread recipes during the weekly question hour in Parliament.

Catholic Bishops give the Hitler Salute, with propaganda chief Goebbels. https://t.co/4i3ZkPbCFk pic.twitter.com/JxGpuSNvJM

— Eduard van Diemen (@eduardvandiemen) 29. Oktober 2016

Police ''assume" it's a natural death, because "at first glance" there were no suspicious circumstances. They made the telephone call to Finland and informed the parents that their son won't return home. Case closed.

Jassim Aba Al-Khail (22) just started his study European Law at Maastricht University. He was found dead in his room, Statensingel 173, last Thursday. Actual cause of death remains undisclosed. 

The Principal carries the procession baldachin (front left) for the Bishop. Following closely behind are the Lawyer, the Governor and the Mayor.

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TBS Clinic De Rooyse Wissel in the News: Cocaine, weapons, missing patients, dead patients – three in three days – heroine, hostage situations and sex with the staff. And that’s only after reading a few articles from this seemingly infiniteGoogle listing.

Reading a bit longer and, again, the MU Forensic Psychology Department pops up. There’s a flow of money from De Rooyse Wissel to Maastricht University, in exchange for research results that should lead to faster resocialization of patients.

At the same time, MU forensic psychologists have a job on the side as expert witness Pro Justitia, which, in theory, means they submit objective reports about suspects at the request of the DA or the Judge. In practice, they help sending away considerable numbers of people, you guessed it, to TBS clinics.

Turns out that Dr. Otgaar c.s. assess mental state not only regarding violent crime, for which TBS originally was intended. Just a few weeks ago, a man from the Maastricht area was convicted to two years clinic for not paying the bill in a few restaurants.

In 2012 the EU Human Rights Court ruled that the Netherlands immediatly release a couple of hundred petty crime offenders from TBS clinics. The Dutch Supreme Court 'overruled' the verdict. Non-existent in legal terms, but quite a creative solution if you’re unable to comply. Problem with those numbers. The discrepancies between what goes in and what comes out are becoming more obvious.

NRC journalists discovered that 38 citizens, without a warrant from the Judge, went in through the back door. Locked up for undefined amounts of time. If they leave alive at all. The Justice Department responded: these people are ”potential offenders of the law”.

Elsevier editor Rene van Rijckevorsel has had it with ''negativism'', banishes reader comments from the website. https://t.co/6eBULuZD4Y

— Eduard van Diemen (@eduardvandiemen) 14. März 2016

BLACK OR BLUE?

Amir's shoe played an essential role throughout the police file. Officer Frijns ''confiscated a black sneaker at 0.200 a.m. dec 1, in front of nightclub Backstage'' (page 41,42,43). A forensics officer with a dog was called in to sniff the shoe and do a search. 

This officer, Hartkamp, describes on page 44 he received a blue sneaker from his colleague. These police actions were among the first that night. They were registered last in the row. With numbers 2007170431-83 an 84.

RTL NEWS. "Criminal Investigation Department in a deplorable state. Problem runs deep". Expert recommendation: "maybe it's time detectives stop using their personal iPhones and home computers for police work." 

Plainclothes officer takes charge. Suspect 'wouldn't cooperate'. pic.twitter.com/N1RAeDfvCC

— Eduard van Diemen (@eduardvandiemen) 7. Mai 2016

 Plainclothes officer takes charge. Suspect ”wouldn’t cooperate”, according to police spokesperson. Arnhem, Gelderland. May 3rd.

It was a hilarious scene: mayor Hoes left the building, 10 December 2014, resigned from office. The next day he was back and reinstated himself for another six months. Without even a hint of hesitation he said that ''this is best for the city''. Courtesy of the Interior Minister, who gave Hoes the green light.

Fast Forward. Thursday April 23th 2015. 
The City Council Selection Committee announces the new mayor. Ceremony begins at 8:30 p.m. The L1 anchor opens with a surprise: ”there is a delay, a ‘quarrel’ has arisen at City Hall”.

”Around 9 p.m.”, as Annemarie Penn testifies in this Elsevier article, ”I got the phone call from the Committee Chairwoman, ‘may I congratulate you’ ”. As if it were some kind of Oscar Night where the contestants are waiting for the magic moment; and the winner is…

The media introduced Penn as a candidate two days before the announcement. Top favourite Roger Van Boxtel miraculously ended up in the bin. He likely wasn’t qualified for the job at hand: defending the heritage of St. Servatius, a job Penn had done so well in the past.

Interior Minister Plasterk – in the picture below partying with the Maastricht Templars – didn’t ask any questions,  installed her into office July 1st 2015.

The first Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award will be presented this year to commemorate the polar explorer's legacy. Not so fast. One issue is still pending. It patiently sits right at the top of Cornelissen's Twitter Timeline.

In his 2012 book, Jew Hunt, investigative journalist Ad van Liempt exposed files on 250 Dutch police officers who organized units to locate and arrest Jews in hiding.

"Officers received a bonus for every Jew they arrested. But money was not the main motivation - they were largely driven by anti-Semitism. Every large town in the Netherlands had such units and they used excessive force against the Jews during the raids. Officers beat, raped and plundered, some so fanatically that even the Germans told them to tone it down."

      ISBN: 9789460037283 

High Schools are using GSM-jammers, which enable them to shut down all smart phones with one push of the button. http://t.co/espH45trTo

— Eduard van Diemen (@eduardvandiemen) May 3, 2015

CUTTING, PASTING & COPYING. OLD SKOOL

Page 283 in the Amir Ibrahim file: police report 2007170431-52, an overview of all police activities in the case, dated and signed 20 July 2008.

Page 296: again, police report 2007170431-52, different content. The existence of double registration numbers is not possible in X-Pol Registration. Not in the official software version anyway.

If even the form number at the bottom of the page - chronologically allocated by the computer - is the same on both police reports, that only can mean one thing: cutting, pasting and copying with scissors, tape, Tipp-ex and the Xerox machine.

The hate preacher of the far right, Geert Wilders, has just been elected Politician of the Year, by a demographically representative sample of 37.000. The wonder boy of the political left, Jesse Klaver, is applauding him for it, live on screen.

Polder Politics strikingly captured on EénVandaag News. 

Bits of Freedom slapped the Dutch Police on the wrist for carrying their own worn little law book in their pocket; that of local habits, decency & respect.

Police Commissioner Reijnders (l) and Wine Farmer Hulst (r) are having a beer at a meeting of the Maastricht Templar Society.

Exerpt from a Washington Post Article
by Karen Attiah, Aug 13^th 2015

''Chad Bilyeu, an African American photographer who has been living in Amsterdam for six years, says he wasn’t surprised by the NRC article, and in general, is no longer shocked by blatant racism in mainstream Dutch media because of the lack of diversity among the Dutch professional class.''

“I’ve worked in a high skilled position in the Netherlands and the level of integration is pitifully low. You’re working at [places like] NRC and you don’t have black colleagues. There aren’t any Turkish people. There aren’t any Moroccans. You have a very small community that’s usually overlooked by the status quo.  There’s no Dutch Ta-Nehisi Coates. There’s no Dutch Neil Degrasse Tyson, There’s no Dutch Cornel West. If they do exist, they are marginalized and their voices are not taken seriously. There’s no editor who’s gonna say, hey, maybe we shouldn’t use n—– in the title.”

''Student Police Officer'' Paul Vermin, Maastricht Templar Society, here (on the right) in the uniform of the Lord.   

METRO: ”Onno Hoes abuses his power in the hunt for young men. The mayor ‘shamelessly’ goes about. After offering them a drink, he grabs them in the crotch.” 

According to witnesses that mostly happens in bars owned by friends of his, who turn a blind eye.

Mayor Onno Hoes is singing the Maastricht Anthem with his friends from the Templar Society, aka de Tempeleers. Onno is their Patron. 

Two of these Templars, Frans Buytendijk (behind the Mayor's right shoulder) and Peter Reijnders (last frame, far right) are Detective and Police Commissioner respectively and they are directly connected to police file 2006145758, which became the blueprint of the copy and paste methods at the Bisschopsingel Bureau. With the purpose of putting citizens down.

                  

On the same day that UN Human Rights Rapporteur Philip Alston told The Netherlands to stop treating refugees like criminals and start abiding by international laws, the city council here in Maastricht elected that very person who was responsible for police file 2007170431  - former Chief DA Annemarie Penn - as the new Mayor of Maastricht.

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The University issued the cause of death, shortly after Thijs Eberson (22) had been found lifeless in the Circumflex Fraternity House, November 2012: ''narrowed oesophagus''. He allegedly choked on his own vomit. Not the Police, but Maastricht University took care of all communications regarding Thijs' death. No mention of an autopsy.

The question is still quite relevant today: which information led to this remarkable medical conclusion? MU's Answer: ''No Comment''.

The defendant remained silent, so the DA tried something else. He called the defendant’s lawyer to the witness stand, by subpoena.

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Verdict in the infamous storehouse murder. 24 years jail time. Most remarkable thing: Guido Kosterman's tortured body was found in the garden behind the storage place. That happens to be the garden of a student house. Bilserbaan 59.

Police in student house Orleansstraat 45a/b, Wednesday 14 Jan. Was this a ''general inspection''? Or a specific one? pic.twitter.com/aSYBlpYEz3

— Eduard van Diemen (@eduardvandiemen) January 27, 2015

The City of Maastricht is using a track-and-trace app to follow students in a survey that monitors travel behaviour. Project leader Katya Ivanova made the students an offer they can't refuse, 600 euros, in return for their signature, thus making the whole thing legit.

And this week municipal officers started knocking on the doors of 500 student houses. They will step inside for what they call a general inspection. Is cooperating voluntary? I wonder what happens if the students just don't let them in?

    

Charlie Hebdo is Heroic...and Racist.

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Disrespect is a fundamental right, Charlie Hebdo took it to the limit. Europe took to the streets after the attack on the magazine, basically to defend that very right to mock and insult.

The Limburger adopted the Je Suis Charlie sign and took a stand pro freedom of press. But the readers are confused. A couple of years ago, cartoonist Ruben Oppenheimer was fired because he didn't abide by the newspaper's philosophy of ''keeping the church in the middle'', as the editor, Huub Paulissen, put it in an e-mail to the cartoonist.

Cartoons about the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church were censored, one after another. Considered too disrespectful here in the South. 

By the way, not a single person started a protest when Oppenheimer was terminated.

The dust of the Bits of Freedom Awards barely settled, NOS reporting that the Government is still tapping lawyers.

''The time that the schools were a safe place is long gone''

The Big Brother Award 2014 goes to....the Dutch schools, for categorically violating the children's right to privacy. The school boards allow the GGD – the Government agency that ''guards'' youth health - to set up shop in the building and monitor the children in every move they make. Every boy and girl has a record at age 11.

A GGD school doctor even inspects the children's private parts to keep track of their physical development. The teachers present the prevention programs as obligatory school activity. Not participating is not an option. And this is where the Bits of Freedom Expert Jury strongly objects. The schools should stop facilitating.

Constitutional Chaos.

The Mayor resigned, but refuses to leave. He insists on making a dignified retreat in 6 months. Pundits agree; this is an illegal construction. Hoes went to the Interior Ministry today, where the deal apparently was closed. City Council was bypassed. Councilman John Steijns: ''Hoes presented the matter to us as a fait accompli''.

Mayor Hoes under fire. City Council in denial. The local newspaper lost the plot. The high school kids have taken over and they are reporting unfolding events on Twitter and Facebook. Police not amused. The people of Maastricht are anxiously awaiting the end of the turmoil surrounding the lingering story about local authorithies that keep on crossing lines.

The only solution is to arrest the instigators, who exposed themselves recycling, falsifying, copying and pasting public documents. Problem: they work at the Bisschopsingel Bureau..

PostNL 2.0

These are the new decentralized mail depots. Rented garages all over town. Key hangs next to the door.

Former Representative Oudkerk: ''This is the end of the PvdA.''

The PvdA obligated MP's Kuzu and Őztürk to sign an affidavit making them pledge allegiance to the party. Party leadership was not amused that the two had criticized their own Minister.

''We have freedom of speech in the Netherlands'', Őztürk replied. ''We sign nothing''. Consequently, the PvdA kicked them out. Being banned from Parliament, however, is impossible.

The two dissidents will return as individual representatives, free from any party discipline and they are going to do what they wanted to all along: answering burning questions coming from their constituency, the people who voted them into office.

This actually is a good thing. Moving one step away from the smothering Polder Model of compromise politics, where issues must always be resolved in the most civilized way. And one step closer to how a truly democratic system was intended. Of the People, By the People and For the People.  

Police guns with GPS. Being tested in California. A smart chip inside the handgrip records and transmits where, when and in which direction the gun is fired, in real time. Why GPS Guns are much needed here in the town of Maastricht? Scroll down this blog a bit and the answer will present itself.

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New Press Rules in Parliament:

Journalists are only allowed to approach MP's and Ministers with camera off. The politicians are fed up being put on the spot and embarrassed by inconvenient questions, especially from the progressive news media. From now on, if a politician says no, that really means NO! Camera stays off. 

Parliament claims final say over footage shot in the building. Airing interviews against the MP's will is a ''punishable offense''. 

600 refugees, most of whom escaped the war in Syria, will receive a warm welcome when they arrive in Maastricht next month. They are going straight to prison. The vacant Overmaze Penitentiary.

Suited accommodation, according to Mayor Hoes, until the intended building downtown is renovated, in two to three years. These 600 men, women and children will be doing the time, about the same amount as a sentence for armed robbery.