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

Breaking the Social Contract

This section is my personal testimony about state terror by the Dutch police, deliberately concealed for decades by medical and psychological care, government entities and the Dutch Violent offenses Compensation Fund. My case is one of the many that took place in the Netherlands —as a hidden war waged by the Dutch police against those that do not fit in the mainstream identity system.

The Cycle of State Violence: From Foster Care to Police Terror

The extreme brutality I encountered in a police station in 1986, just five years after leaving the Dutch youth care system, was the logical continuation of a state-engineered assembly line. It is directly comparable to the "Foster-to-Prison Pipeline." In this systemic cycle, the state first strips children of their families, childhood, safety, and human dignity by violence and suppression while altering their basic identity.

When these broken children enter adulthood, the police do not view them as citizens deserving of empathy, support, and protection. Instead, they treat them as "societal waste" generated by the government's own institutions. This became undeniable through the explicit language the police used, targeting "deviance," a "foster care background," and branding me as part of "a different species against which we wage war."

By weaponizing nazi rhetoric and antisemitic hate speech, the Zwolle police department functioned as the ultimate clean-up crew for the Dutch government. Living with the most complex identity issues imposed by the Dutch youth care system and deprived of any protection from the LGBT+ community or the state itself, the Zwolle police targeted me as "one of those"—classifying me as an Untermensch. I am not alone in this; thousands of people across the globe experience this same ultimate violence due to their identity.

Violations of ECHR Article 3, 6

The violations of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the Zwolle police station (January 18– January 25, 1986) constituted systemic torture. They included violence resulting in permanent physical injury, sleep and food deprivation, death threats, Nazi/antisemitic rhetoric, dehumanization, forced nakedness, 'correctional sex- education', sexual intimidation and sexual violence. A police officer, posing as a lawyer, explicitly stated that "the police had the right to completely destroy your type of suspects, regardless of whether the allegations were true, just for the sake of it."

This terror was fueled by a corrupt police officer acting out of personal vendettas. Thirty-two years later, in 2018, a high-ranking delegate of the Dutch National Police finally admitted in the presence of the National Ombudsman that these horrific violations did indeed occur within their departments during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2005 and 2013 the case was presented at the Schadefonds Geweldsmisdrijven (Violent Offenses Compensation Fund) but they refused to react, until 2026.

The Illusion of Recognition

See the page Violent Offences Compensation Fund - report for the recognition in 2026 of this violence after 40 years by the state.