The penalty of 3000 euros will be maintained. Marcel Atema, owner of Het Edammertje, a mobile snack bar, has been proven wrong by the municipality of Edam-Volendam. He has to get his snack bar from the parking lot every night. Marcel’s lawyer Bert Creemers will appeal against this and, if necessary, go to court.
Marcel is not going to be in the cold clothes. From all the stress he suffered a heart attack a few months ago with several bypass surgeries. Since he lost his snack bar in the center of Edam in a fire in November 2017, he has been wandering. He thought he had found his permanent destination in the parking lot on Dijkgraaf Poschlaan. “An official assured me that I could stay here. I would only have to move in an emergency.” But that promise turned out to be empty and Marcel was told that he has to move his cart every night. “But that’s not possible with all those parked cars,” Marcel exclaims desperately, “There’s no room for that at all.”
The snack bar is between the parked cars and you cannot move every day. – NH News
His customers also think this way and find it ridiculous that such a demand is made of Marcel. But the municipality does not want to give way and does not want mobile snack bars or fish stalls to be permanently in one place. They know nothing about the official’s promise. Marcel’s lawyer Bert Creemers wants the civil servant to be interrogated under oath in a court case. “It’s just mismanagement.”
Marcel prefers that there is a solution without the intervention of the court. “Surely we should be able to sit down to resolve this?” His contract with the municipality runs until the end of 2024. “I actually want to continue for another four years until I retire.”
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