Remembrance Day
Today, commemoration of the dead is being commemorated in places throughout the Netherlands. The National Commemoration will take place again on Dam Square in Amsterdam, where the monument was defaced earlier in the day. Follow everything about Remembrance Day via our live blog below.
The most important points:
– On the night of Sunday to month, the Monument commemorates war victims daubed with red paint. ‘Genocide’ was written on the monument, among other things. The Monument has now been cleaned again.
– The KNMI announces on Monday afternoon code yellow in five provinces. This concerns Overijssel, Gelderland, Utrecht, North Brabant and Limburg. According to the KNMI, from 4 p.m intensive showers where locally 20 to 30 millimeters of rain may fall.
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Former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer calls today’s world ‘a wild world‘. “Our habituation to stability and security is being severely tested,” he said at the annual commemoration at the Loenen National Cemetery.
In his speech, De Hoop Scheffer wondered how safe the world will be for his five grandchildren. “Will they and their children continue to grow up in a stable and – note the N – valuable environment without fear of war and violence? The choices we make now are decisive for the answer to this question.”
In his speech, the former NATO boss mentioned, among other things, the war in Ukraine. “The American interest in Ukraine has decreased sharply and we Europeans must not fail this test.”
There are almost 50,000 graves at the cemetery in Loenen, Gelderland 4000 Dutch war victims buried. The commemoration included music and a minute’s silence. Then those present sang the first verse of the Wilhelmus and laid wreaths.
Upside down, in the dark, half mast. The Dutch flag is regularly displayed. But what are the rules on May 4 and 5? And what about that pennant?
The National Monument on Dam Square is clean again after it was defaced early Monday morning. The monument in memory of the Second World War was erected with a large amount of red substanceprobably paint, smeared. ‘Genocide’ was also written on it.
Het Parool has obtained images on which the action is recorded. The Amsterdam newspaper says it received it from the action group Palestine Action Amsterdam, but it is not known whether they also claimed the action. The group could not yet be reached for a response.
are in the images see three people. The monument is said to have been defaced around 4:30 am, about fourteen hours before the Second World War is commemorated there. A cleaning crew had been cleaning the monument since early in the morning. Police are looking for at least three suspects who were wearing rain gear and one carrying white shopping bag had.
The KNMI announced on Monday afternoon code yellow in five provinces. This concerns Overijssel, Gelderland, Utrecht, North Brabant and Limburg. “There will be no warnings in effect for the next few hours. Later this afternoon and evening there will be falls in the south, center and east of the country showers, with local thunder and lots of rain,” said the KNMI.
Outdoor activities such as Remembrance Day and road traffic are possible here experience inconvenience. According to the KNMI, intensive showers will occur from 4 p.m., with locally 20 to 30 millimeters of rain possible. Local thunderstorms are also possible. In the second half of the evening the showers decrease in number and intensity.
May 4 is celebrated in several places in the Netherlands on Monday at 12 noon the air raid siren sounded. This was the case in the Rijnmond region, among others. According to the government, the alarm may never be tested on May 4.
The Rotterdam-Rijnmond Safety Region has announced that this is the case a human error went. A spokesperson reports that testing the alarm is the responsibility of the individual safety regions. She suspects that various security regions “missed the memo”.
Report on X residents of Den Bosch too the sounding of the air raid siren. A spokesperson for the Brabant-Noord Safety Region confirms this. According to her, this is also a human error.
Politicians have reacted angrily on the graffiti on the National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam. Prime Minister Rob Jetten speaks of an ‘idiotic and completely unacceptable action’. And ‘disgusting’, writes State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Home Affairs, VVD).
Prime Minister Jetten hopes that today can be united and together with respect will stand still. ‘Defacing the National Monument on Dam Square is an idiotic and completely unacceptable action. Especially today, on May 4,” he writes.
Cleaning crews are busy Monday morning to remove graffiti from the National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam. The monument is marred with a red substance. The word ‘genocide’, among other things, has been spray-painted on it.
A scaffolding has been placed against the column of the monument. Get cleaners from an art maintenance company with a high-pressure sprayer the red graffiti on the monument. They also use brushes to remove the substance, which looks like paint, from the monument.
The red stuff has been applied to both the column and the wall behind it. In some places the substance appears red being thrown against the stone. By 8 a.m., the word genocide had largely disappeared from the monument. A fence has been placed around the monument. The police could not yet say when and by whom the graffiti was applied. That is being investigated.
