Justice
Yes, Amsterdam Really Did Banish an Entire Family to a Shipping Container 'Scum Village'
The city has sent a "socially disruptive" family to Zeeburger Island, an ex-industrial port zone monitored by a heavy police presence.
Amsterdam has found a new way to deal with families it considers socially disruptive—it’s sentencing them to live in the suburbs.
Following a long period of trouble with the police and neighbors, the city recently evicted the Dimitrov family from Amsterdam’s Noord district and sent them to basic accommodation on Zeeburger Island, a predominantly ex-industrial port zone in the area where the city meets the Ijmeer Lake. Housed in converted shipping containers monitored by a heavy police presence, the idea behind the move is that the family will bother their neighbors less if they don’t have any neighbors to bother.