However, Duwo said the fire brigade judges the building safe.Īt the request of Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema the fire brigade carried out another inspection at the flat which showed all fire prevention installations had worked well.Ī meeting with the tenants will be organised at short notice at which the fire brigade will be present to give information. As Robert Heinlein predicted long ago, these are the crazy years: An Iowa man was sentenced to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a church LGBTQ flag in June. Many students have said they no longer felt safe in the flat because of safety issues. Then, last month Martinez was found guilty of a hate crime a class ‘D’ felony third degree harassment and reckless use of fire. We are in a difficult situation: we support the campaign but we must guarantee safety too’, the Duwo spokesman said.ĭozens of people had to be evacuated when the arsonist struck a week ago, leaving the eighth floor of the building uninhabitable. At the time of the incident, Martinez admitted to police he had stolen and burned the LGBTIQ flag. The New York City Police Department broke the news on Twitter that they had arrested Singleton for burning three gay pride flags flown outside of the Alibi Lounge, a gay bar in Harlem. Police are asking for the publics help to find those responsible for vandalizing the flag hung outside the Sparta United Methodist Church. ‘We are supportive of a campaign in the area to support the lgtb community but we are calling on the students to display the flag in their own windows. SPARTA A rainbow gay pride flag displayed outside a Sussex County church was set on fire for the second time late last month. This flag includes the colors red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet on it.
The 6-Color Pride Flag is one of the most well-known and used LGBT flags throughout history. Banning flags is bowing for terrorism,’ she told the paper. Violet represents the spirit of LGBTQ people. A recent Twitter moment compiled instances of the use of the emoji and traced it back to one Twitter user who first tweeted out the emoji Monday evening. Local VVD chief Claire Martens said Duwo should have taken more measures to keep the students safe. The decision angered COC Amsterdam chair Margriet Veeger who said ‘intimidation has won’, according to the Parool.