Again the managers go from ‘t Uilennest to court. They are going to challenge the closure of their café. Lawyer Bisar çiçek said this to Omroep Brabant. The case is seen by the police and the municipality of Tilburg as a gathering place for members of Satudarah. On Tuesday afternoon the mayor decided that the café should be locked for two months this summer, after the judge wiped an earlier closure of the table.
The soap around ‘t Uilennest starts on Friday evening, January 24, when the police invade the cafe. Ten ex-members of the forbidden motorcycle club Satudarah are taken out of the pub and picked up.
Open, closed
Pub owner Atilla knew their background. “But they were just a customer here. I just give them drinks and food, I don’t listen to conversations. So I don’t know what they discussed here,” he said one day after the raid. His wife Gemma was vibrating in the cafe: “Our life is upside down. I hope to never experience this again.”
What they do not yet know is that the municipality decides at the end of February, in the week before Carnival that ‘t Uilennest must be locked for six months. However, the judge wipes that decision a day before carnival. Months of uncertainty for Gemma and Atilla, until Tuesday afternoon. The mayor makes a knot: the café must still close on July 1. Not six months, but eight weeks.
Right
Although lawyer Bisar Ciçek sees the duration of the closure as a victory, he appeals. “We are going to challenge the entire closure. There is no danger or potential danger to public order at all,” says the lawyer. “In addition, it says enough that the mayor now finds a closure of eight weeks enough instead of six months.” According to Ciçek, the mayor says that ‘it is not so bad’.
The lawyer of ‘t Uilennest hope that the judge can make a decision before the closure. “We ask for a provisional judgment of the judge, so that the closure can in any case be put ‘on hold’. But hopefully the court can suddenly deal with the whole case so that the closure can be deleted completely.”
Moneytak
In the meantime, the municipality has started a BIBOB investigation into the managers, to see if they are guilty of money laundering or other forms of crime. That research can also lead to a closure. A police investigation is also running against Atilla, where the outcome may be that the permits will be withdrawn.
In the meantime, the managers especially hope that they can stay open in July. “The fair is coming. Then we always take care of the start of the disabled fair with free drink, chips and ice cream for three hundred people,” they said last week. “We just have a position in the municipality.”