when they raised the risk of violence, and also used a range of criminal behaviour orders such as curfews and non-association orders to limit gang violence.

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Last month, drill musicians who were members of a gang, and who had admitted conspiring to cause violent disorder, received a court order that banned them from making music without police permission.

In May senior officers also promised to start treating those who made the films in the same way as those who promote terrorism online.



Nobody has been more critical of these measures than the members of that small group of people who have been attempting to make sense of gang violence, and who fear that attempts to suppress drill will leadDutch Party for Freedom (PVV) founding leader and member of parliament, Geert Wilders, has said he will speak at the United States Republican convention in the summer in support of likely party candidate Donald Trump.

Geert Wilders, who is presently facing charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Moroccans in his native Netherlands is a prominent leader in the European counter-jihad movement and has praised the Trump candidacy for its unaccommodating stance on Muslim mass migration.

Speaking out after Ted Cruz and John Kasich stood down from the Republican candidate race and left Mr. Trump as the only credible candidate earlier this week, Mr. Wilders said of Mr. Trump: “He has guts, a lot of good ideas and speaks to broad groups in society”, reports Rotterdam’s largest newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.

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