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Forced to live with migrants to increase integration – raped
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Terrified Dutch students were forced to live side by side with 125 migrants to facilitate their “integration”. It all resulted in years of sexual abuse and violence.

Stek Oost, located in the district of Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam, was sold to the public as the dream solution to the housing and migrant crisis. 125 students and 125 migrants would live side by side with each other and were even encouraged to “work together” so that the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands faster.

For the media, however, students testify to something completely different from an ideal situation with repeated sexual abuse, harassment, violence, stalking and even a gang rape.
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A woman says she regularly saw “movements in the hall and then again in the common living room”. A man tells him that a migrant threatened him with a 20 cm long kitchen knife. Both claim they were ignored despite filing several reports to the authorities.

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In another case, a former resident tells me that a Syrian raped her after inviting her to her room to watch a movie and then refused to let her go.

“He wanted to learn Dutch, get an education. I wanted to help him," she said.

She describes how he asked her to come to his room several times. She eventually gave in and agreed to watch a movie with him. But he soon made her uncomfortable and she asked to go, just for him to catch her in his room and sexually abuse her.

Despite filing a police report after the incident in 2019, police closed the case due to a lack of evidence.

Impossible to be evicted

Just six months later, another woman living in Stek Oost sounded the alarm about the Syrian and told the housing company pushing the complex that she was worried about her own and other women's safety.

But the local authority, which had set up the arrangement, claimed it was impossible for the man to be evicted. It was only when he was formally arrested in March 2022 that he left the complex. He was later convicted of raping two students and sentenced to only three years in prison in 2024.
The city refused to close

In another case reported, the statutegione, the company that runs the complex, suspected that a gang rape took place in one of their apartments in the summer of 2023. Police told the media that they did not know that any gang rape had taken place in the area, but that they had received seven reports of sexual assault.

Since its opening in 2018, Stek Oost has been met with several similar allegations. In 2022, television station AT5 reported that a migrant had been accused of six sexual assaults between 2018 and 2021. The city of the city wanted to close the complex already in 2023 but the municipality refused.