Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard van der Laan believes that it is becoming easier in his city to get automatic firearms. That’s because of the disappearance of border controls within Europe. Moreover, the structures of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Balkans disappeared. Van der Laan has written in response to questions from CDA party leader Marijke Shahsavari
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Mayor Van der Laan Amsterdam Photo: Reuters
The reason for her question was some very violent incidents in Amsterdam where with automatic firearms shot.
According to Van der Laan is “a very worrying development that the weapons are used in public spaces, in which citizens at serious risk.” If an automatic weapon is confiscated, via Interpol tried to trace the origin, writes Van der Laan.
He also composed the police the image that it has become easier with automatic weapons to come. Since 2010, according to Van der Laan by police annually between seven and twenty of these weapons were seized.
It is not clear how many shootings in Amsterdam recently been used automatic weapons. The police there, according to Van der Laan no separate registration at. Apart from the violent killings with automatic weapons, there seems, according to the mayor “to be a downward trend in firearm use”
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