Violence among fat bike youth, protest against asylum seekers’ center and concerns about Tata Steel: this is how divided Heemskerk manages to keep things together

It is a city disguised as a village. Heemskerk has apartment blocks with metropolitan problems next to an agricultural area with bulb growers. There are tensions with youth groups, a heated discussion about an asylum seekers’ center, but there is also an annual typical North Holland folk festival with a fair and lots of beer. Heemskerk resembles the Netherlands, but on a smaller scale. Micro-sized polarization? No, in the coastal village they manage to find a solution together.

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