The fireworks ban means that during the coming New Year’s Eve possessing and setting off all New Year’s fireworks outside the home is punishable. In this way, the cabinet wants to prevent hospitals – where the pressure is already very high due to the corona pandemic – from being extra burdened.
But the ‘fireworks setter’ has free rein: only real excesses will be intervened. “Boas will not actively enforce fireworks,” says a spokeswoman for the municipality of Assen. Mayor Van de Mortel of Vught says he has ‘no capacity’.