Crack Addicts and Homeless People in Oosterpark Drive Residents to Despair: 'People Were Chased and Threatened'

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Amsterdam's Oosterpark is struggling to cope with the influx of homeless people with serious drug addictions. District chair Carolien de Heer is appealing to the national government. "This problem isn't unique. Other districts in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and even the whole of the Netherlands are affected by this. It's a crisis."