WATCHES, ENGAGEMENT RINGS, AND A BULLET

Last Friday two armed men burst into a jewelry shop in Deurne, in North Brabant province. They shot and wounded the owner, whereupon his wife gunned them both down.

[Business: Goldies Juwelen, at Milhezerweg no. 27A.]

Admittedly, this is not business as usual, even in Brabant.

[According to a local person, speaking about the jeweler and his wife, "these people will not give up anything easily, that isn't their nature".]


What makes it all problematic is that the attackers were Moroccans, and the local unemployable Moroccan youths are outraged that it looks like no charges will be filed against the jewelers (Willy and Marina Sanders) for murdering two perfectly harmless armed Moroccans.
It is an outrage!

What, they demand to know, is this world coming to when shopkeepers take the law into their own hands? What is this world coming to?

The parents of one of the dead criminals have hired an attorney to seek justice for their son.


Again, outrageous, and what the world is ever coming to!!!


The local unemployable Moroccan youths (all thirty of them) have staged angry protests, at which police had to separate them from equally angry passers-by (one or two hundred), who spontaneously counter-protested. Things were said that should not have been said.
The police handled it all very well.


I haven't lived in Noord Brabant for a very long time now. So I really don't know what to think of all this. Here in the United States, if a jeweler blasted a robber to the next life, he or she would usually be considered to have acted correctly.
There have been numerous attacks on jewelry stores in the Netherlands by people of Moroccan extraction. There have been dead jewelers in consequence of those attacks.

Perhaps it is best to shoot first, and have tea with the "Marokkaanse buurtvaderen" later. Which is a perfect task for Dutch politicians.
Politicians like having tea with Moroccan neighborhood elders.
It's a strong signal to the "community" that they care.
And it has been extremely effective in the past.
No Moroccan elders have robbed shops.
A few of their sons, however.....
Ah, youth. Passionate.


There is a racial element to all this.
Which displeases some people.
Of Moroccan extraction.




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