The Sand had a bad reputation for years – Parool.nl

29-09-14 8:22 pm – Source: Het Parool

The police investigation Saturday morning at The Sand, on the night of Friday to Saturday someone was shot. © anp

The Sand has long enjoyed a bad reputation. The club in the western port area on Saturday became the mayor closed indefinitely after a fatal shooting, yet another serious violent incident at the club.

According to the organization were Friday night as seventeen guards employed at about 1650 visitors dance party Afro Dance, but apparently it was in the early Saturday morning no problem to smuggle in club The Sand. firearms within In the VIP zone. There shot a stranger around quarter past four rival dead.

It was the umpteenth time that The Sand made his name with “serious incidents, including firearms incidents’, as recalls Mayor Eberhard van de Laan in the closing order which he indefinitely shut the club-cum-purpose hall Saturday.

The history of the hall at the Mekongweg, at the beginning of the western harbor area, is indeed turbulent. Brawls there were plenty, revelers also harassed each other by force, and the club had a great appeal to vague types – bearing the vipdeck was not exactly an exception.

Bullet shavings
On the night of 1 to 2 November last year certainly was shot three times outside the club. Perpetrator and the victim fled, a car hit lagged behind, with bullet casings nearby. In the spring of 2010, two brothers (17 and 27) were stabbed after they would have harassed a woman at the club. One was hit in the back, the other in his thigh. Three men aged 21 and 22 from Rotterdam and Capelle aan den IJssel were arrested.

It was during the period that a new owner would want to polish its image. The Sand In recent years, there were many besides the (dance) parties at the weekend to weekday weekdays many events where the suggestion of “beach” often played a role. Then a large load of sand in the hall was poured for beach sports or events in the sphere of umbrellas and loungers. Even reputable companies hired the hall of 2700 square feet, but with the reputation would never be up again.

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As said, ever new incidents, but also the past continued to haunt The Sand. On January 4, a former owner was geliquidereerd. Aytas Göraler (39) was shot several times at close range in the head when he was standing by his car after visiting family in the Slauerhoffstraat, New West. He had his son on his arm. The toddler fell to the ground, but remained unharmed. Göralers eight-year-old daughter was standing next to him when the bullets were fired.

Atilla Önder
investigation assumes that a lingering issue for The Sand well be the reason for the murder could Göraler be. He had the club in the past purchased together with the famous Amsterdam coffeeshop criminal and Atilla Önder, in the criminal known as ‘Atti’. Who spent years stuck in Turkey due to a large criminal to drugs and murder, but released following a change in legislation.

Önder refund would have required investments in The Sand, which is one of the theories of the criminal investigation. When he got nothing, he would have given his son Baris Önder Göraler to (let) assignment murder. Önder Jr. and two other suspects from his entourage have recently heard about the liquidation as suspects, but now have their cases dismissed Justice for lack of evidence.

The management of The Sand Saturday immediately canceled the festival that was scheduled for the evening, but was within hours of the closing order of Mayor Eberhard van der Laan, the club closes. The club late on her facebook page know that “our thoughts go out to the families of the victim; that the police full cooperation so that “the perpetrator is quickly arrested and brought to justice” and that they are internally busy ‘to clarify the facts. ” The management wants to get the mayor at the table to discuss that the closure would be to eliminate

(By: Paul Vugts) measures.