Just under 13,000 Rotterdammers, including 500 children, have considered the type of profile they would like for the next mayor of Rotterdam. The results showed that Ahmed Aboutaleb, who will resign on October 1 after almost 15 years in charge, must be replaced by someone who will be considered "global mayor from a global city."
It is almost impossible to keep fireworks out of football stadiums because football fans - men and women alike - smuggle them in their “intimate parts,” Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said on Monday. “I’m told the toilets behind those stands are full of condoms, where they put those torches to keep them hidden in intimate places,” the mayor said, NOS reports.
The Rotterdam football club Feyenoord will be celebrated on the Binnerotte in the center of the city today. The football players won the battle for the KNVB Cup against Nijmegen’s NEC 1-0 in De Kuip on Sunday evening.
Ahmed Aboutaleb will retire from his position as the mayor of Rotterdam on October 1. He had earlier announced that he was stepping down from the position near the end of the year.Aboutaleb told the city council in January that he would not complete his six-year term. “The search for a new mayor is in full flow now, and there is more clarity about the process of succession,” he writes to the city council.
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Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb wants millions of euros extra for the deployment of police officers and other people to combat drug-related crime in his city, he said in an interview with Trouw.
It is impossible to check all premises in Rotterdam for drug laboratories. This is what the mayor of the port city, Ahmed Aboutaleb, said on Friday evening in the program "In Gesprek Met" on TV Rijnmond. He was responding to questions raised by the city council following the explosion and fire on the Schammenkamp, in which three people died last week.