A fire broke out in a house on Vaartbroek in Eindhoven on Sunday afternoon Police suspect arson and have started an investigation There was substantial damage to the rear of the home The fire brigade managed to prevent the fire from spreading to the inside Investigators began trace research on Sunday and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" De Bijenkorf primary school in Vaartbroek and Bibliotoop Woensel-Noord have joined forces to allow children to participate in a special project in the neighbourhood De Bijenkorf is committed to developing these basic skills throughout the year going into the neighbourhood with the children The children then look at what they want to improve and think about how they can create more connection De Bijenkorf approached the still developing Bibliotoop Woensel-Noord a bibliotoop was already started in Tongelre and in the coming year more locations will be opened in other districts of Eindhoven Various activities are already being organised The intention is that every resident can develop their basic skills at a library a lot of time is spent on setting up collaborations in the neighbourhood with residents and authorities This also applies to the children of De Bijenkorf The question was how they can create more connections between three social agencies located around the primary school: Dynamo Jeugdwerk Werkplaats Financiën and the Bewonersbibliotheek Dommelbeemd After several interviews and brainstorming sessions the children thought it would be fun to make a flag for each institution that shows the connection and brightens up the neighbourhood with cheerful colours Together with graphic designer Guy Verbeek these flags were festively presented to the partners with a real parade through the neighbourhood The children did not find it that easy to make a flag for Dynamo Jeugdwerk because so much happens there: from gaming to making music And what exactly do they do at Werkplaats Financiën ultimately gave the children a better idea of this The Eindhoven neighbourhoods of Oud-Woensel and Vaartbroek seem to be becoming increasingly crime-ridden and criminal gangs are youths appear to be deeply ingrained in these areas These problems also seem to be difficult to solve That’s according to a partially confidential report commissioned by the municipality was accidentally published on the council’s website The report states that these disturbances have increased over the past two years There’s a lot of illegal activity in these neighbourhoods It’s reported that there are not only drug houses and dealers and illegal nitrous oxide shops These are a ‘direct physical threat and nuisances’ The municipality is concerned about empty shops and speeding traffic too It’s a known fact that many businesses in the area are engaged in criminal activities “Vaartbroek may not feel any less safe than most of Eindhoven crime is a major problem in that area,” the report reads It mainly concerns drug-related crime and violence Some youngsters cause nuisance and engage in illegal activities the council has seen different criminal networks come into and leave this neighbourhood “Younger brothers and sisters are recruited as foot soldiers,” says the report They’re then easily tempted to join in That’s due to a lack of good alternatives.” the municipality has had their eye on a criminal youth group of about 20 members in Vaartbroek “They don’t seem to cause too much of a nuisance But that’s mainly because people are unwilling to report it.” “A lot of their criminal activities don’t happen in public either,” the report says This group has direct links with the Oud-Woensel neighbourhood They intimidate not only residents and business owners The council and police are struggling to get this group under control “We have a good idea of who’s involved They’re regularly nabbed for minor offences.” more concerned with the leaders,” the report states “They’re often in the background and elusive.” The above information is contained in confidential pages of a report on tackling subversive crime The municipality isn’t willing to further delve into these pages presents the following explanation of the plan to tackle disruptive crime to Studio040: “The subsidy for the BOTOC (Broad Offensive Against Organised Disruptive Crime) prevention approach is spent on preventive projects The municipality of Eindhoven already has some of these in the Social Domain But there are several new projects too.” “These projects intend to strengthen young people’s resistance [against criminality – ed] “Tailor-made solutions are important here Setting up a project isn’t a goal in itself This is in line with existing structures and partnerships.” we’ve chosen to temporarily intensify existing projects or those that have a preventive effect” If you have any tips or comments about this story or would like to respond, please email chris.bakker@studio040.nl. This story was made possible in part by the Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek (Journalistic Stimulation Fund) and WOS Media work together on local investigative journalism Source: Studio040 the crime is rampant because the police disregards any reports dismiss reports for BS excuses to maintain a false statistic of relative safe city Or it is just a bunch of plain lazy coward “police” Not until you’ve been a victim yourself and repeatedly in a city that brags as high tech and with abundance of cctv cameras _ easy but useless proof when it is dismissed by so called police because the victim doesn’t provide an abundance of useless details of the property that was stolen from right under one of these cctv camera that you don’t own disgusted by the “police” experience of this city I’ve got to experience your police type to understand what it means to have the right to carry and protect one’s home and property When and how the citizens developed this helplessness Or is it after first encountered experience with your police Or maybe the reports of crime don’t matter if the victim not a native just a foreign student or foreign resident all the facts will be put together and let s make it circulate mass social media and will see what’s the citizens opinion and how many facts will be uncovered of so called “not reported” crime or rather dismissed report of the crime a passive and biased police and passive citizens allowing their “so great city” as safe training grounds for the high crime “ring” to train the newbie members at lower crime level at the expense of residents until they graduate to most important jobs of the ring