‘Bored’ Dutch youths hunt down paedophiles amid rise in vigilantism

When Jan, a 73-year-old retired teacher in the Netherlands, was beaten half to death last October near his home, it sent waves of shock across the nation.The horror only grew when he died in hospital soon after, with flowers mounting at his door in the Dutch town of Arnheim as neighbours marked a moment of silence.It didn’t take long for a gang of six people accused of the crime to be rounded up. The youngest was 15 years old. They were self-declared paedophile hunters.Child rapist in Indonesia…

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