The newspaper reports that the court is in Amsterdam determines that a suspended firefighter may return to work for the time being. He is alleged to have behaved systematically in a racist and discriminatory manner and has been suspended while an investigation is ongoing. He is suspected of making discriminatory comments such as “cancer Moroccans” en “black monkeys“. The firefighter would have said about Islam: “they can get the plague with that belief“. He is said to have said about an immigrant colleague at the barracks: “we have to hammer a cross on the shower, so that he can no longer shower“. He calls Amsterdam-West: “the Caliphate” and for all this he was suspended. He had also demanded that investigations into his conduct be stopped, but that is allowed by the court. The court states that the Fire Department has not properly motivated why the presence of the man at work would disrupt the daily routine..

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