Damage in the Maagdenhuis after 6 weeks occupation – De Gelderlander

AMSTERDAM – The occupants of the Maagdenhuis there are a lot of ransacking. Several doors exhibit damage, including the doors of the rooms of the Executive Board. There are also windows and roof tiles killed, there are posters stuck, marble floors and walls have been damaged by graffiti.
 

Because it is a listed building will be much more expensive to repair the damage when a ‘normal’ property would be, according to a spokeswoman for the University of Amsterdam . The restoration of monuments according to its strict rules. Besides the damage was too much junk left behind.

Clearance

 After a weeklong occupation riot Saturday morning brought an end to the occupation of the Maagdenhuis in Amsterdam. 9 people were arrested during the eviction. They were arrested for include insulting agents, obstruction and throwing a paint bomb to one of the police horses.

The judge had Friday determined that the protesting students the property of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) quickly had to leave. In a statement from the municipality, and the police state that they had hoped could make the board of the University of Amsterdam and the occupiers after the verdict agreements on an orderly departure from the Maagdenhuis. “That has not happened,” therefore had to be evacuated Saturday morning there.

Sit-in

 The students themselves had said Monday leave, so they wanted to keep the festival this weekend could continue. The lectures are now held at the Spui Square for the Maagdenhuis. Saturday there is also a ‘sit-in’. The occupiers have indicated that the actions against the government continue unabated. “Maagdenhuis continues,” they shouted shortly after the evacuation.

The Festival of Sciences and Humanities, which had organized the Maagdenhuis occupiers, is not Sunday. “After the evacuation of the Maagdenhuis and the arrest of nine students, we do not have the energy to continue tomorrow,” said a spokeswoman for the New University. Probably the festival is overtaken soon, at an unknown location.

Restoration

 A spokesman for the UvA expects the Maagdenhuis about 2 weeks back can be put into use. The cost of the entire occupation of both the Maagdenhuis as Bungehuis, according to him come down to about 5 tons. “These are the costs for security, cleaning, repair and staff who had to move to another workplace.”

The Maagdenhuis, the administration building of the University of Amsterdam, for weeks occupied by students and teachers to protest the direction of the board. The protesters moved into the building after they were put out in February Bungehuis – also a property of the University of Amsterdam. Maagdenhuis was late 60s also the center of wild student protests.