Trauma art #3 Police sexual violence, abuse and brutality

Trauma art #3 Police sexual violence, abuse and brutality 99 - 120

One of those - image on trauma art by Jimmy Groen

99. One of those

30 x 40 cm Mixed media 2025

Stigma by Design: The Architecture of Silence

"It is forbidden to deny history, yet it is permitted to unleash it. I am living proof of a state that employed Nazi methods while celebrating its own morality. In the silence of society, the destruction of the 'Untermensch' persists"

The Archive of the Unseen
Here, we document a fractured chapter of a post - war history: the deliberate dehumanization of those deemed "lesser" by the gates of authority, literally regarded as Untermensch. I was one of those.

The demonization, fueled by antisemitic rhetoric and (sexual) violence, occurred in the mid-eighties—the most violent post-war period in the Netherlands. The state deliberately violated the 'eggshell skull' rule, weaponizing my vulnerability against me. Using a single youth care document as a target, the police declared: 'Foster children are the lowest trash of child protective services; we are here to clean you up.' See also the curatorial statement

The Buried Truth
The State’s own ledgers admit to these violations; their confidential records whisper of breaches against the very essence of human rights (ECHR Art. 3). Yet, where there is admission, there is no accountability. Justice has been interred in the dark soil of internal reports, a deliberate act to keep the public blind and the guilty safe.

Sovereign Evidence
This is more than art. These pieces are sovereign evidence of a state-sponsored crime. They are a scream for truth echoing through a system designed to fail. When the world chose stigma, we chose to remember. When the State designed our exclusion, we designed our resistance.[3]

If the government is unwilling to actively investigate this type of violence and refuses to offer victims recognition and support, it shows that statements such as " you dirty Jews must be gassed" and the violation of ECHR art 3 are still relevant. Albeit that a hidden governmental agenda to exclude certain (selected) individuals from protection by law is not excluded: it is a repetition of the darkest period in history, carried out against the most vulnerable citizens in society.

Notes:
(1) These images serve as a vital means of processing. Despite having no criminal record, I have been denied mental health care, official recognition, and peer support. With no one to talk to, art became my only tool to navigate this haunting trauma. The state has ignored the lifelong reality of such suffering, making any path to justice impossible.
(2) The language depicted in these works is not my own; it is the verbatim perspective used by Dutch police officers in Zwolle between January 22 and 30, 1986.

(3) The violations of ECHR3 by the Zwolle police is officially reported at United Nations Human Rights office of the High commissioner