Demonstrators entered the A59 near Den Bosch on Wednesday evening during a protest against an asylum seeker center (azc). The highway towards Waalwijk is closed and the exit is also closed. The demonstrators are against the arrival of an asylum center on the adjacent Engelen business park.
About a hundred demonstrators have gathered on the highway’s exit and main lane. They carry banners and torches.
Not the first demonstration
It is not the first time that a demonstration has taken place. On Saturday April 18, Den Bosch mayor Mikkers imposed an area ban on nine more people. A day earlier, two others received the same ban. They were not allowed to enter the De Vutter business park for a number of days.
A few days earlier, two people were arrested during the anti-azc demonstration. People tried to block the road, threw stones and stopped work. Demonstrators also tried to enter the A59.
Shelter in old police station
The municipality of Den Bosch announced at the beginning of April that it would accommodate fifty underage refugees at the De Vutter business park in Engelen. The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) has been offered a building there, which previously served as a police station, to accommodate single boys and girls aged 15 to 18.
