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Amsterdam to relocate red light district as part of crackdown on 'gawping tourists' A series of changes are happening in Amsterdam to transform the kind of tourists the city attracts Amsterdam's red light district is moving out of the city centre Credit: Getty Amsterdam’s famed red light district will be closed and moved to an ‘erotic centre’, following an agreement by concillors. The news is the latest in a prolonged war against the supposedly seedier aspects of the Dutch capital. In April 2020, Amsterdam's council banned red light tours from the medieval district, also called De Walle...

Windows in the red light district of Amsterdam. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images The brothel windows of Amsterdam’s red light district will be closed and an “erotic centre” will be set up away from the city centre, councillors have agreed. A proposal from the city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, to shut down a significant number of the windows in the narrow alleys around the docks was backed by a broad group of political parties. The sex workers in the De Wallen red light district will be invited to move to a purpose-...

Dennis Boutkan of the Labour party said the move would “reset” Amsterdam as a visitor city. The CDA’s Diederik Boutkan said tourists were “welcome to enjoy the beauty and freedom of the city, but not at any cost”. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Sex workers stand in the windows of brothels in the area to attract custom, but have become a tourist attraction in themselves. Lobby group Red Light United previously claimed that 90 per cent of female sex workers it had surveyed wanted to be based in the windows that line the network of narrow canal-side streets and alleyways that mak...

*Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities Amsterdam, The Netherlands – “Fireworks, dynamite, gasoline, bricks,” said an invite to the riot that erupted in Amsterdam, on Molukkenstraat in the city’s east, on Monday. “Get everything.” The invites were shared on social media, in Snapchat posts, Instagram stories, on Telegram and WhatsApp groups. Monday was the third day of violence to shake the Netherlands, where hundreds of rioters in several towns and cities have been clashing with police. In some of the ugliest scenes, a COVID testing centre was attack...

Netherlands: What’s behind violent anti-lockdown riots? Al Jazeera English © A man cleans up broken glass from the smashed windows in a fast-food restaurant that was damaged in ... A man cleans up broken glass from the smashed windows in a fast-food restaurant that was damaged in protests against a nation-wide curfew in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Monday, January 25, 2021 [Peter Dejong/AP] *Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities Amsterdam, The Netherlands – “Fireworks, dynamite, gasoline, bricks,” said an invite to the riot that erupted in...