‘Den Haag prohibits protest Schilderswijk’ – Wedding

'Den Haag prohibits protest Schilderswijk' – Wedding

Edited by: Staff – 08/14/14, 10:57

© anp. protesters during the ‘March of Freedom’ last Sunday at the Hague districts Schilderswijk and Transvaal.

The Hague Mayor Jozias van Aartsen, a new ‘March of Freedom’ by prohibiting Schilderswijk. The chance that riots break out as protesters in the district demonstrating against Islamic extremism, according Aartsenfruit too big. This reports the AD on the basis of sources around the Hague City Hall.

Van Aartsen makes his decision to ban the march tonight probably known. The Hague city council holds than an emergency debate on the recent protests in Schilderswijk. Van Aartsen can look forward to a vote of no confidence in the debate, but the expectation is that it will not make it.

The mayor was under fire in recent days. During his vacation ran a pro-IS-rally and subsequent reaction ‘March for Freedom’ out of hand. At first he refused to break off his vacation but after persistent criticism, he went through the knees.

clashed
During the demonstrations, the police last Sunday narrowly avoid demonstrators clashed. The demonstration was demolished and the organization announced a new march on. PVV leader Geert Wilders yesterday called on to participate. Part in the demonstration Young people from the neighborhood say they want to keep. Protest march again against

Orthodox Muslims
In Schilderswijk are relatively many highly orthodox Muslims who stand for a return to pure Islam. Part of the district is developing into an enclave of orthodox Muslims, who also impose the moderate or non-Muslims outside their strict rules from the neighborhood, wrote Wedding in May.

Last Sunday, the group clashed with supporters of the Facebook group Pro Patria, who held a demonstration against anti-Semitism and the IS sympathizers.

read today in Trouw more about the backgrounds of the unrest, and the position of Van Aartsen.

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