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 a certain 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 a lesser species. I was one of those [1].

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 psychological and medical support, it shows that statements such as " You are like those dirty Jews and must be gassed" " You are a different species against which it is war" and "Hitler would know exactly what to do with people like you" and "Foster children are the scum of society we have to clean up"[2] - the violation of ECHR art 3 is still relevant and not officially rejected in the Netherlands.Victims end up in a social and psychological vacuum with their lifelong state inflicted trauma in a state presents itself as a country that protects human rights and promotes humanity and well-being for citizens.

The violations in a police station included torture, aggressive harassment, stigmatization, dehumanization, death threats by police officers and others, sleep deprivation, imposed and corrective/ educational (adult-) police- sexuality, a police officer posing as a lawyer and lasting physical injury due to physical abuse.[3].

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, peer support. No one to talk to, art became my only tool to navigate these experiences which are intertwined with youth care experiences.

(2) The horrifying 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) Officially reported at United Nations Human Rights office of the High Commissioner and as petition against the EU as 'of the European Parliament,with the submission of “Petition on systemic human rights violation (art.3 & 8 ECHR) and the lack of rehabilitation for victims" (number 0754/2026).