imagined someone would kill him for it. He made the mistake of assuming that the wider world would not intrude on his Amsterdam scene (Buruma 2007 p91-98).
Bouyeri was of Moroccan heritage like many in Amsterdam most of them in the Netherlands are Berbers not Arabs from remote villages in the RIF Mountains, Moroccan immigrants lack many things which may give them a sense of not belonging. The women are normally illiterate, and both sexes are widely distrusted and often many are in the lower classes of society and in poverty. They have to try to fit into a European society that they don’t understand but also try to stay true to their motherland. Those who try to succeed through intelligence; hard work and good fortune in Dutch society often do very well. Those who don’t often drift into a world of gang violence and petty crime, the most vulnerable are those