“The politicians twelve years ago, when I came here, were like: that’s something of the big cities, that doesn’t happen in Nieuwegein. But if you look a little deeper, you see that a lot is going on. That’s where it starts that you will recognize it. And now we are in the phase that we are also going to do something about it. Are you too late? Well, yes, we were just not there yet.”
Farewell interview mayor Backhuijs: ‘The closer it gets, the harder my heart starts to bleed’
