Mayor of Scheveningen: no prior signals of riots

According to Van Zanen, there were some calls from young people to go to Scheveningen, 'but there was no signal anywhere that: we are going to riot. That did not happen.' Entrepreneurs in Scheveningen also did not report that there was a risk of unrest, said the mayor.

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The mayor notes that 'we have not been able to get the signals that were apparently there at organizations, and that add up to say in retrospect: well, you could have known.' He does point out that the police are not allowed to look into closed chat groups. "The police are allowed to do much less than I would like. I would have liked to know where those people suddenly came from."

One of the reproaches to the municipality is that the Mobile Unit was not deployed immediately. At that moment, it was in action in Rijswijk, where a man had been shot dead on a hotel terrace. "There was a crisis situation there where they were badly needed. I would have preferred to have them all at once, but that is not the case. I do not have more police, there is a shortage of capacity in the entire country. The capacity is finite," Van Zanen explained.