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| Subject: Dutch gripped by 'shop a migrant' website - That's free speech for ya Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:54 am | |
| A heated row has erupted in the Netherlands over a website by the Freedom Party (PVV), which invites Dutch nationals to lodge their complaints about Central and Eastern Europeans living in the country, the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague reports.
"Do you have problems with people from Central and Eastern Europe? Have you lost your job to a Pole, Bulgarian, Romanian or other Eastern European? We want to know."
This is the Freedom Party's latest initiative providing frustrated followers with forum to share their negative encounters with Eastern Europeans in the Netherlands.
Users are encouraged to enter their details anonymously before clicking in the circles each representing a particular "problem" presented by Eastern Europeans.
Categories include: drunkenness, double parking and noise pollution.
Ukrainian-born Iryna Kremin has worked in the Netherlands for 20 years. She is worried by the discriminatory undertones.
"It is not just people from Russia and Poland who get drunk and play loud music, is it? Dutch people do that, too.
"In every country there are good and bad people, but to have a site that just targets people from Eastern Europe and asks people to say bad things about them, it's wrong and I don't think any good can come from that," she adds. 'Get stuffed'
The European Commission immediately condemned the populist Freedom Party (PVV) for presenting a platform for such intolerance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17078239 |
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