Protests: Another asylum center information evening devolves into chaos

Azc: Campaigners threw eggs and set off fireworks. There was also fierce dissatisfaction in the sports hall where the meeting was held. A meeting about...

The four hundred people present were escorted outside by the police.

An information meeting in Best about the arrival of an asylum seeker center (azc) in that municipality was terminated prematurely on Wednesday evening after things got unsettled when people turned against the plans. A police spokesperson confirms reports about this by Omroep Brabant.

The information evening on Wednesday night about the arrival of an asylum seekers' centre in Best was prematurely terminated. A large group of rioters were not allowed in and therefore banged on the doors, threw eggs and sought confrontation with the police.

The suspect who was arrested late Wednesday evening for setting off a firework bomb after the protest against the asylum seekers' centre in Best, is a 14-year-old boy from that town. The police announced this on Thursday morning. The boy is said to have thrown heavy fireworks twice after the meeting. The boy was arrested by plainclothes officers and taken to the police station in Eindhoven. "He was arrested the second time he threw them. He was …

Protests: Another asylum center information evening devolves into chaos

Another information evening about opening an asylum shelter devolved into chaos, this time in Best. The meeting in the Naesetenbest sports hall was cut short when angry locals tried to violently force their way inside and threatened the mayor and aldermen, Omroep Brabant reports. The police arrested one man for setting off a firework bomb.