Rino Driessen is going to campaign on a tractor in Breda on Thursday to save his day care Ariba from destruction. The youth worker has to leave Bavel by September 1, but is doing everything he can to stay. In addition to the protest, Driessen is considering appealing in cassation and a WOB request is being prepared. “I still haven’t packed a nail,” he says.
Rino is determined to sit on his tractor, because he is going to protest. The youth worker cannot simply accept the threat of eviction. On Tuesday he will do a short round of Breda, but on Thursday he will be present on the Grote Markt in front of the city hall. Behind the tractor a trailer with a large banner: ‘Farmers by nitrogen, Rino van Ariba by the municipality of Breda.’
“I compare my situation with that of the farmers, yes,” says the youth worker. “Because they also end up on the street because of lies and impotence.”
“I’m not going to block it with my tractor, because it’s not big enough for that.”
Driessen hopes that the municipality of Breda will change its mind and allow him and his clients, young people with a mild intellectual disability, to stay longer. That chance does not seem great, because the judge recently decided on appeal that Rino and his Ariba foundation must leave the plot of land on the Woestenbergseweg in Bavel as of 1 September.
“I can just stay longer,” says Driessen. “There is still no concrete plan for the development of the land, the house is habitable and the farmland next to me has again been leased to my neighbor for five years. I see no reason to leave and I still have not packed a nail .”
That is why Rino will take action in Breda’s city center on Thursday afternoon at noon. “It’s a kind of protest and the police know about it. But I’m not going to block things with my tractor. It’s not big enough for that, haha. I’ll see if there are more people on the Grote Markt stand.”
“I have never had a contract from the municipality, but there must be something.”
In the meantime, it is being examined in the background whether it is likely to appeal in cassation against the decision of the appeal. A WOB request to the municipality may also be in the offing. “I never had a contract on paper from the municipality of Breda at the time, but there must be something somewhere,” says the youth worker, who is fighting again after a difficult period.
An alternative for Driessen would be a move to another location for a restart. There may be some places outside Breda that might qualify. “I’m willing to invest in that, but then it has to be a stable plan,” concludes Rino Driessen.
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