Creates commotion by an email from the director of a nationwide chain of stores which writes that hardly any will see some more Zwarte Piet on packages in stores. The president was responding to complaints from the community about racist stereotyping in the Black Piet figure. On social media and in the political overreact. The right website GeenStijl Calls for a boycott. After this, the department store which scrambles back. Leave on Twitter PVV-leaders Geert Wilders en Martin Bosma their protest. Bosma tweet: “A nation that yields to nag immigrants, will lose more than Zwarte Piet”. The department wants to Zwarte Piet 2015 do not use anymore.

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