In an opinion piece in Dagblad Het Parool wrote XR activist Simone Wiegman about the access bans. She confirms on Saturday morning that 36 climate activists from Schiphol have received a letter with the announcement of an access ban.
XR has the two letters that the activists have received. This refers to the XR campaign on 8 March at Schiphol. Then 67 activists were arrestedbecause they did not demonstrate in the assigned place. The campaigners were behind the safety control. After their refusal to leave there, they were arrested.
Royal Netherlands Marechaussee declaration
In a response to NH, a spokesperson for Schiphol says the activists who demonstrated on 8 March to deny five to a maximum of ten years access to secure areas of the airport, “to guarantee the safety of the airport, the order and interest of travelers.”
The activists may enter the public areas of the airport during this period. The spokesperson also announces that Schiphol will report the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee if criminal offenses are committed.
Schiphol says ‘to respect the right to demonstration and to facilitate it, as long as they take place within the lines and at the agreed locations’.
None April 1 joke
The action group plans to challenge access prohibitions, says lawyer Willem Jebbink on behalf of the organization. According to him, what exactly XR is going to do is selected.
Last week it turned out that an announcement of XR about An action with butyric acid in Hoofddorp was a April 1 joke. Both Jebbink and Wiegman say on Saturday that the news about the access bans is not a joke.
In Het Parool Wiegman calls the forbidden ‘a dangerous suppression of the demonstration law’.