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AMSTERDAM IS TRYING to weed out members of the Hells Angels motorbike gang employed as civil servants after one of them was jailed for a grenade attack, the mayor’s office said today.
“We think it’s difficult to reconcile working in public service while belonging to a club that says openly that the law does not apply to it,” Bertho Boer, a spokesman for Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan, told AFP.
The move comes after a city employee and Hells Angels member was on 3 January sentenced to eight years in prison for putting a hand grenade under a car. The target of the blast survived.
The mayor’s office said that three civil servants were believed to be Hells Angels members.
“It’s fairly straightforward, we give them the choice: either they renounce their membership or they renounce their job within the municipality,” spokesman Boer said.
“If they don’t want to make this choice then we will see what measures we can take as an employer and that could result, as a last resort, in their losing their job.”
Two MPs from the mayor’s centre-left PvdA (Labour) party have asked Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten if the law permits a municipality to fire an employee for being a Hells Angel.
The Hells Angels did not immediately respond to requests for a reaction.
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Another clear indication that the economy is improving and possibly at a faster pace than some believe
Hard to believe that Sin Fein still believe the economy is doomed and there are zero signs of a recovery.
It’s absolutely key now that developers get the credit needed to add to the supply side and therefore avoid over heating of the market. Govt have a job here in my view
Economic recovery is bad news for SF.
They will run the country down at every opportunity.
Can you imagine their horror in 2016, budget back in surplus & economy growing again.
It’s another property bubble.
It’s absolutely crazy in the residential market. I signed a 12 month lease on a 1 bed flat in the city centre last week but it took me a few weeks to find it.
They (landlords and letting agents) are actually having viewing nights, where 10 or more people view the kips at once.
My rabbit hutch was €300 cheaper 12 months ago.. its a sign paddy greed is setting in yet again and we know what happened last time.
a rebound is inevitable, but there are still a lot of vacant buildings about.
So, the “to let” signs are fake then?
Dublin is too overcrowded and concentrated, there should be greater incentives for companies set up base outside of Dublin
Dublin is not in the slightest bit overcrowded.
There are thousands of acres of derelict brown & green field sites within the M50.
Amazing how our economy is doing so well according to the government, estate agents and landlords yet the ECB warned our politicians our economy is not doing well at all.
We have one of the biggest debts of any country in the world. sinn feinn are not being negative about the economy there being realistic. We cant afford another little building bubble. It would break ireland totally. And the sooner most people in this country realise that the better.
i wonder where will families go when renting a 2 beds will cost 1600 per month ( give it another 6 months)
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