A teenage girl has been stabbed to death by an asylum seeker in Amsterdam, sparking national outrage.
The young girl, named Lisa, 17, was killed in the early hours of August 20 as she walked home after an evening out with friends.
The 22-year-old suspect, a male asylum seeker, had been arrested previously for rape and is alleged to have carried out a third assault on a woman.
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It has created outrage across the Netherlands, with the "reclaim the night campaign" in full force, inspired by a poem by the Dutch actress and author Nienke 's Gravemade.
The poem highlights the red handbag which hung from Lisa's handlebars on her bike.
Miss Gravdemade wrote on Instagram: "I claim the night. I claim the streets. I demand that the fear be lifted.
"The red bag. I keep thinking about that red bag. How it dangled from her handlebars as she drove through the night. A night that belonged to her too."
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A banner reading 'RIP LISA' is held up at an Ajax football match
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Crowds at an Ajax football match at the John Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam stood in silence in memory of Lisa.
A banner was displayed in the stadium which read: "Dear Lisa, brave warrior".
Lisa was a supporter of the football club, with her body being discovered close to the stadium.
The arrest has been used by the leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), Geert Wilders, to push for the Netherlands to close its doors to asylum seekers.
As seen in Britain, there have been multiple Dutch protests over asylum centres in multiple cities across the Netherlands.
There has been a heavy police presence around the Amsterdam refugee hostel where the suspect was arrested.
Dutch elections are scheduled for October 29, after Mr Wilders and the PVV party walked out of a conservative coalition, as he claimed, ministers were unwilling to take measures against illegal or criminal asylum seekers.
They refused due to fears of breaking European Union or human rights laws.
Geert Wilders' party are leading in the polls
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Mr Wilders posted on X: "Every day more misery. Murder, rape, violence.
"The PVV wants an immediate total [stop to asylum] and all criminal scum out of our country."
According to political polling from Politico, the PVV leads the way with 19 per cent of the vote.
They are closely followed by the GroenLinks and Labour Party in the country, polling just behind at 18 per cent.