Sisters terrified in their own home: "The atmosphere is imminent '

19-09-2015 15:45
She annoyed death on the noise, do not sleep and come every morning dead tired at work. And Maria Elena Gonzalez Viveros, who lives in Amersfoort, are once more terrified of the neighbor and among the addict guys who hang around there. The previous tenant of the apartment in the Van Gentstraat left after she was seriously threatened. The Alliance now refuses to cooperate in a relocation of the sisters.
 
,, Here, look. "Maria Gonzalez Viveros pull the top of her jacket a bit down. Behind the strap of her bra clamped a Swiss Army knife. In the crease of her pants she hides a paring knife wrapped in paper. ,, I dare otherwise the door is no longer out and especially not in. When we returned in the evening come from our work hang strange and evil men around the house. They are drug users. The atmosphere is imminent. I'm afraid of them I must be able to defend myself. ''
 
The cup of tea, the 33-year-old nurse from Spain in the city café Observant her lips move, trembling in her hands. The four-year old Elena constantly looking nervously around. At home, the sisters do not agree, because the walls are paper thin and have ears. They want no quarrel with the downstairs neighbor and its visitors. They do whatever they can not leave. As Maria and Elena but may live elsewhere.
 
Despair
 
The Alliance is driving us to despair by doing nothing, sighs Maria, who came to Amersfoort five years ago for work, followed by her sister. In April 2015 she and Elena address a first letter to director Koos Koolstra of The Alliance. The sisters write that the situation is intolerable for half a year by the ongoing noise from the ground. There used drugs, according to them and traded and there is prostitution. Maria and Elena beg Koolstra to help them. Six weeks later, the Alliance responds to the neighbor in an interview improvement promised. If unfortunately once again talk of nuisance, the landlord wants to know
 
It did not exactly help, says Maria. ,, It was worse. I tried three times to talk to the downstairs neighbor, but she was still very aggressive. Then I dared really do not. ''
 
I tried three times to talk to the downstairs neighbor, but she was always very aggressive
 
Maria Gonzalez Viveros
 
The sisters note, such as the Alliance asked all incidents. There are six between May 20 and June 9, noise until the early morning, slamming doors, shouting and intimidating behavior in the backyard. Mary decides the list of the Alliance as follows: "We want to leave this place, because we are afraid and it can really get out of hand once. I send you this letter so you know, if something happens to us. ''
 
The Alliance message on July 3 that the downstairs neighbor does not recognize the picture painted. "We can not intervene in threats between neighbors and in the elimination of fear. We encourage you to engage in conversation with your neighbor. Very exceptionally, we are willing to mediate, "the corporation writes.
 
 
Weeping
 
When Mary wells over two months later the tears. She can not remember her sister either. Should something terrible happen first? They must first get hurt, before someone reaches out to help? ,, We have come to the Netherlands to work here and build a life. We have from the first day itself earned our money. All we want is peace and not worrying about every day. ''
 
Elena hopes that politics can do anything for them. ,, You have a good democracy in the Netherlands. The City Council is still the boss in Amersfoort? Maybe that will help us. We are desperate. It is no longer hold out in our home and that is not our fault. ''
 
Solution
 
Tenants who wish to move because of nuisance neighbors should not count on housing The Alliance for a replacement property. The corporation expects stricken residents non-urgent cases and "may" therefore do nothing for them.
 
The rules of Amersfoorts largest social landlord - The Alliance owns approximately 10,000 homes in the city - also provide for the expansion of extremely troublesome tenants. This only happens if the police was often on the spot and several residents have experienced prolonged inconvenience, according to the corporation.
 
The specific circumstances of the two sisters is not in the Alliance. ,, We understand that it is a very unpleasant situation, but can not but refer to the police. Furthermore, we would like to mediate in the matter, '' spokesman responds Leonie de Jong.
 
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