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Amsterdam warns rowdy sex and drug tourists to “stay away” from the Dutch capital, writes the BBC.
The digital deterrence campaign shows footage of drunken young men being arrested by the police, handcuffed, fingerprinted and made to spend the night in a drunken cell.
For years, Amsterdammers have complained that drunken Britons urinate in public, vomit in canals and end up in drunken fights, writes the BBC. A return trip to Amsterdam from the UK costs around SEK 600. British travel agencies arrange, among other things, bachelor parties with strippers and canal boat cruises with unlimited booze.
In Amsterdam, there is a long-running public debate over whether tourists should be banned from the city’s cannabis cafes.
A ban on smoking cannabis on the streets in and around the “Red light district” where many brothels are located comes into force in May. As of this weekend, brothels and bars are forced to close earlier.