Parking lot ravaged by fires empty on time, so ‘no penalty for owner’

That deadline has been met, the spokesperson for Mayor Schuurmans of Haarlemmermeer confirms. “The site was cleared on time. “So no penalty for the owner.”

NH reporter Thijs-Jan van Aalst was at the site earlier this week and saw that it was virtually empty. “There was only a security house, two garbage containers and one burnt-out car,” he says.

Target arson

The site on Bennebroekerweg has regularly been the target of arson in recent months. In two fires, one or a few cars burned down, but on the night of Sunday 10 to Monday 11 November the damage was many times greater: dozens of cars, mainly belonging to Schiphol travelers, went up in flames.

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