Resident protests against asylum centers continue and sometimes have an effect

Across the Netherlands, asylum centre plans are being scrapped. Not just because of fierce protests. Opponents are now also bringing in lawyers who are challenging the locations using the law book. "It is actually the worst possible location."

In Bussum, angry residents forced mayor Ham ter Heegde to a meeting. In Het Hogeland, the municipality is looking for a new location. In Heerle (NB), plans for an asylum seekers' centre have been scrapped after protests.

Since he suggested that an asylum seekers' centre could be established in his hometown, councillor Rolf van Bruggen from Bedum has had to fear for his...

Ginger Wijngaards has lived in the village of Heerle for five years. On April 17, 2024, she and a fellow villager started a working group called 'Leave Heerle alone' against the arrival of an asylum seekers' center (azc). Together with her fellow villagers, she succeeded in ensuring that the municipal council will not place an azc in Heerle. In an interview with NieuwRechts, she shares her experiences. "When the news broke that this azc would ha…

Loud cheers and applause in the council chamber in Roosendaal on Wednesday evening. After a narrow majority of the municipal council voted against the arrival of an asylum seekers' centre, the visitors in the public gallery did not hide their relief. The decision means that the proposal for a refugee shelter for three hundred asylum seekers on the Bergsebaan in Heerle has been shelved. The decision by Roosendaal politicians was preceded by fierc…