Fireworks thrown at Montferland municipal councillors discussing new asylum center
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Fireworks thrown at Montferland municipal councillors discussing new asylum center

NL Times  

Protesters threw fireworks at municipal council members in ‘s-Heerenberg in Gelderland as they were heading into a meeting to discuss opening an asylum shelter, regional media reported. It was such a huge bang that I couldn't hear anything for a while and there’s still a ringing in my ears,” she said to Omroep Gelderland. Outside the municipal council meeting on Monday, the group shouted slogans against asylum seekers through a megaphone. According to De Gelderlander, they also shouted texts against other things like “against the deployment of our children in wars” and against the police officers present.

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Fireworks thrown at councillors outside meeting on asylum centre
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Fireworks thrown at councillors outside meeting on asylum centre

Dutch News  

Councillors have been pelted with fireworks by protesters on their way in to a meeting to discuss the location of an asylum seekers’ centre. Three members of Montferland council were targeted outside the meeting in ‘s-Heerenberg by a group of around 30 demonstrators objecting to plans to house 250 refugees in the small Gelderland town. Thankfully they were quickly surrounded …

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