Hundreds of Amsterdam's sex workers and residents protest against the transfer of their famed red light district to an out-of-town "erotic centre", in what is seen as part of a battle for the city's soul.
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00:00 [chanting]
00:11 [drumming]
00:21 [chanting]
00:32 We have been protesting against the disappearance of the windows for 16 years.
00:36 In 2007 the municipality started a plan to reduce the number of windows.
00:45 In 2007 the reason was the fight against human trafficking and crime.
00:51 And now it is a fight against mass tourism, which is the reason for this project.
00:59 [chanting]
01:02 The ball is by far the safest and most independent way to work.
01:07 It is very well arranged, very safe.
01:10 And if you want to improve the position of the sex workers, then they should start listening to the sex workers.
01:18 [chanting]
01:28 We don't want the biggest brothel of Europe in our neighbourhood.
01:32 Not in South, but nowhere in Amsterdam.
01:35 We just don't want it. We want to keep it here.
01:38 The mayor has walked this warm walk with us.
01:41 We want to leave the red light district as it is.
01:45 We want the mayor to accept that the tourists have to be lowered, the number, but not in this way.
01:52 Not within the European Centre or somewhere else.
01:54 [drumming]
01:59 (thudding)