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Friday,
29 May 2026 - 08:43
Violent
far-right demonstrators attack asylum center supporters in Uithoorn
A protest
in support of an asylum shelter in Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, had to be cut short
on Thursday evening when anti-asylum protesters started attacking them. The
anti-asylum group threw the protesters with bottles and eggs and set off
several smoke bombs, AD reports. The riot police kept the two groups apart and
later led the pro-asylum shelter protesters away for their safety.
Uithoorn
is opening an asylum shelter for up to 250 people in a former office building
on Wiegerbruinlaan. The municipality issued the necessary permits this week.
Several
hundred anti-asylum protesters held a march from the site of the planned
shelter to the town hall. A few meters away, the supporters of the shelter were
holding their demonstration, with banners reading “My Netherlands is
hospitable” and “Welcome everyone.” They chanted, “Refugees are welcome here.”
PVV
leader Geert Wilders addressed the anti-asylum group at the town hall, telling
the cheering crowd that “our people are being replaced” and advocating for
“repatriation.”
That is
similar rhetoric to the other far-right party, FvD, which got FvD leader
Liddewij de Vos an hour-long scolding in parliament earlier this week. One
after another, party leaders from the left and right demanded that she distance
herself from racist, extremist ideologies and condemn violent protests, while
she dodged answering their questions.
After
Wilders’ speech, the anti-asylum group turned on the other protesters, throwing
eggs and bottles at them, booing them, and chanting anti-asylum slogans. The
riot police kept the two groups apart.
Ultimately,
the pro-asylum demonstration was cut short, and the police led these protesters
away. No arrests were reported.
Anti-asylum
protesters hung large Dutch flags in the square, and many also carried their
own flags. The orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag, used by the Nazi NSB and very
popular in far-right circles, also made an appearance.
Deventer
Police
also kept pro- and anti-asylum protesters apart in Deventer, which is planning
to house 50 children in a vacant office building on Diepenveenseweg, Hart van
Nederland reported.
Approximately
200 people supporting the asylum shelter for unaccompanied children gathered on
De Brink in the city center and gave speeches there before marching to the
Grote Kerkhof.
At the
same time, about 40 anti-asylum protesters gathered at the proposed location
for the shelter. They walked to the same square via a different route.
The
police kept the two groups apart, and there were no incidents, a police
spokesperson said.
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