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Netherlands: immigration raids

01 May 1992

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In March the State Police conducted a massive raid on a distribution company in Geldermalsen arrested four illegal alien workers. 120 police officers were brought in by riot police buses and once inside the company building immediately began separating white from immigrant personnel. The entire operation was videotaped by police, while a helicopter circled over the area to detect possible escaping illegal workers. A total of seventy people who could not identify themselves on the spot were transported to the police HQ. Some of them had to stay there all day because they were unable to reach anyone who could bring their identification papers. In the end four workers could not prove their legal status. MP's of the Green Left party questioned the ministers of Justice and Social Affairs on the operation,
which they described as "hard-handed, discourteous and discriminating". The police deny that any discriminatory acts have taken place.

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