They kicked around half past eight in the door of the building. Security guards were waiting for the students but could not prevent the student demonstrators broke into the building.
images show that dozens of students in the building. One of the students also addressed the group of students and calls for consultation. It is not clear whether the students Maagdenhuis like Bungehuis for a long time to fill.
” When we heard would be, we now have all our friends and acquaintances as soon as possible to get here, ” cried a spokeswoman for the activist group The New University hearers.
The students want the administration of the university immediately resigned. They also want a new government that was democratically elected by students and teachers, and they want referendums on important decisions
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The Amsterdam police await developments in the Maagdenhuis and does not intervene yet. A spokesperson announced Wednesday. “There are an estimated 100 to 200 of our students inside,” police said.
The raid follows a protest march Wednesday along different locations of the University of Amsterdam. Hundreds of students, teachers and supporters walked along. They demand more democracy in higher education.
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Board Dymph van den Boom of the University of Amsterdam is willing to come to the Maagdenhuis for consultation as the students, it is now occupy, within an hour had left the building. Van den Boom, according to a spokeswoman for the movement, the New College, leading the student protest, said
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