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NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam mayor to stop using sound device against young people

01 February 2011

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NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam mayor to stop using sound device against young people:

Local Amsterdam government decides to stop using mosquito sound device to chase young people away from public spaces. Mosquitos are devices that were used the last few years to emit a high pitch sound that only people under 25 can hear and makes it annoying for them to 'hang around' at shopping malls and street corners. Amsterdam mayor Van der Laan now announced to the council that this practice is 'like fighting nuisance with nuisance' and will be stopped. Van der Laan was criticised by the left wing party SP for using this system, and the European Council wanted it to be declared illegal. More than one hundred municipalities in the Netherlands still use this system. Article in newspaper Het Parool (link)

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