TV review What else can you say about the killed children in Winschoten?

In the north, two children were killed by their father. He drove a channel with them at Winschoten. They probably had eaten at McDonald’s first. The people sympathize, there was a great search. Terrible, incomprehensible and exceptional news.

In the talk shows it was discussed with psychiatrists, lawyers, journalists and Hans Kraay Jr. Eva Jinek was in black. EenVandaag (NPO1) had brought a development pyschologist for vague reasons. As a topic of conversation, however, this drama turned out to be very unsuitable.

Because what do you do with this news except be shocked? Court reporter Saskia Belleman alerted in Eva (NPO1) That child murder is more common, but it is very rare. According to the CBS, it affects about six children a year. Too little to be called a social problem. Murder is rare in the Netherlands anyway, less and less. Little is known about this specific case. According to the police chef at Eva The family in question had been known for years at the authorities: drinks, domestic violence, fight divorce. The police had visited the father on the eve, but then saw no reason to intervene.

How can you prevent such a drama? The talk showers talked about faster intervention, better communication between the authorities, « sharpening risk profiles », taking women seriously. Presenter Jeroen Pauw spoke in Bar late (NPO1) Wise words: « We are not trying to get a grip on something that we as a society may hardly get a grip on? »

Addicted drummer van Doe Maar

Also in The Netherlands drug country (NPO2) It turned out that the manufacturability of society is very limited. In the second episode of this other Tijden-Special arch presenter Ajouad El Miloudi about the heroin epidemic of the seventies and eighties, which mainly held home in Amsterdam.

On a wealth of archive images you saw how Achenebbish looked like the city. Snonny hippies slept everywhere on the street asleeps. Cleaned slums, junk on the sidewalk. The Zeedijk was littered with junkies who used on the street and who robbed each other and unsuspecting passers -by. A lot of crime, many dead. The mayor officially labeled the Zeedijk as a ‘disaster area’.

To their surprise, care providers had to determine that the majority of the roughly seven thousand addicts did not want to kick off. Now the unique Dutch method of paps and wet was invented: you could pick up and chase the junkies away, after which they brought down somewhere else, but you could also give them for free methadone and heroin. Methadone bus, user spaces, care; For example, the nuisance decreased and the addicts got a better life.

The real solution did not come from the government. In the nineties, Heroin was simply out of fashion, it was given the name of losers drug. No new addicts were added, the veterans had their addiction reasonably under control – thanks to the assistance. The images from then were cut with those from today. Amsterdam now looks so much nicer. You can no longer live in it – too expensive – but what a difference.

Some survivors still come to get heroin for free. Some have become a social worker themselves. The former drummer of Doe Maar appears to be an ex-junkie who now provides information to the family of addicts. He says that in his drug period he pushed money back from band leader Henny Vrienten. After a fifteen -year -old girl on a fan club day, he was thrown out of the band. The rehab was the least problem, he said, it was mainly what came after: « Learning to live without anesthesia. »

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