In an anti-migration protest with a Quran burning in Hoofddorp, the mobile unit acted on Wednesday evening against counter-protesters who threw stones and fireworks. One person was arrested earlier in the evening because of ignoring ‘a claim’, five other detainees disrupted public order by, among other things, causing vandalism. The police confirm that NRC After reporting from the ANP news agency.
According to a spokesperson for the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, “four to six” people protested against the temporary, five -year reception of up to 450 asylum seekers in the former Crowne Plaza Hotel on the Planetbaan in Hoofddorp. One of them was Edwin Wagensveld, the foreman of anti-Islam movement Pegida. On a photo From regional broadcaster NH News you can see how Wagensveld lights a Koran in a fire pit.
NH Nieuws reports that the group of counter -protesters consisted of about eighty people. According to the municipal spokesperson, that group was formed by people from “anti -fascist angle” and “youth who come to kick riots.”
Temporary care
The municipality of Haarlemmermeer wants to use the place, which now rents out to the COA, in the future for residential and working locations. However, the construction plans are not yet finished.
The municipality banned Wagensveld and Hugo Kuipers, co-organizer of the anti-migration protest, to make open fire because of safety. But the preliminary court decided on Wednesday that the activists are in their right.
Wagensveld organizes Koran burns more often. The Pegida leader attempted to set fire to a Quran twice in Arnhem at the beginning of last year, but did not succeed in the attacks by counter-protesters. Agents were also attacked by counter -protesters. Wagensveld returned to Arnhem last May with the same goal. Under the Nelson Mandela bridge, outside the Arnhem city center, he managed to burn a Quran.
Last April, Wagensveld received a 20 -hour work sentence plus a week of conditional in prison for group insult of Muslims, insulting of Arnhem mayor Marcouch and the violation of an area ban. Nine counter-protesters were given task and prison sentences. Wagenveld has been repeatedly convicted of group insult.
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