Kriminaliteten växer i Amsterdams Red Light District

Nya förordningar i Amsterdam har antagits för att minska antalet bordeller i Red Light District. Man menar att organiserad brottslighet och trafficking allmer tagit över och dominerar.

In some ways, city officials concede they are having to deal with problems created by the Netherlands’ own lenient policies. A parliamentary inquiry, criminologists and prostitutes’ support groups have warned in recent years that prostitution and the permissive marijuana trade were increasingly a magnet for international organized crime. In a report about the sex trade, Karina Schaapman, a former prostitute and now a member of the City Council, described a police face book with some 80 “violent pimps” of whom only 3 were Dutch-born. She said more than 75 percent of Amsterdam’s 8,000 to 11,000 prostitutes, including 1,000 men, were from Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.

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