The court in Assen pronounces in summary proceedings that two men are out Meppel have filed against the municipality Meppel. The first session was finished 14 April and then the men demanded that there be no AZC at a location near them. They say they fear financial damage. The men lose this injunction because they do not sufficiently demonstrate that they will suffer damage. The men do not want to accept the decision and are considering next steps.
This Thursday, the city council of Meppel a decision about the arrival of an AZC. Opponents of the arrival of asylum seekers have united in the action group “Say no to the AZC Meppel“. They hold a small demonstration with banners and activist Ben Willard speaks at the council meeting. The city council nevertheless gives the green light to the new reception areas.
In Meppel hands over Ben Willard, on behalf of the action group “Say no to the AZC Meppel“, 1400 signatures to the mayor. They have collected the signatures both on the street and online to encourage the municipality not to receive six hundred asylum seekers. Op 21 January they organized a small demonstration against the arrival of asylum seekers.
In Meppel two men organize, who will also be active in right-wing extremist groups later this year, a demonstration with several dozen people against the arrival of six hundred asylum seekers Meppel. One of the men is Ben Willard. In addition, they start an online petition and they set up an internet page with the title “Say no to the AZC Meppel“.
In a two-year period, which runs from 1 January 2016 tot 19 January 2018, attacks an elderly woman Meppel the family she lives next to. The neighbors form a mixed family with a Dutch and North African background. The elderly woman destroys a downspout, threatens to hit one of the neighbors with a boulder and throws all kinds of junk, food products, boulders and thumbtacks over the fence. She says to the child: ‘Your parents are murderers ", "I know people who are going to kill your mom and dad and then you will be left alone", "The child police come to get you’ en ‘You must get out, you don't belong here. Go back to your own country, bad daughter'. The woman frightens the family a lot of fear and dread and in September 2019 follows a criminal case.
The National praatpeal in Meppel where anti-racist groups protesting against the use of Black Peters. Social media appear thousands of racist messages directed against the action. There are death threats and curses at and a few are prosecuted. Several neo-Nazis are Meppel present, for example, from Combat 18 and a group of surrounding the bar Nazi De Nationalist from Ravenstein. here heaves Patricia Visser van De Nationalist cries over "monkeys”, when she sees African Dutch protesters.
A man from Heinkenszand Is in Amsterdam guilty of sedition and insulting a group. He is angry over an anti-racism action against Zwarte Piet Meppel. On the Internet from his aggression: “Time you clap once quite go screaming gens bunch rottuig How do you get to screw it in your mindless rotkoppen to GVD a children Get out to your Apeland Acorns“. He must in December 2017 to appear in court.
A newspaper reports that loitering youths Meppel carving swastikas and drawing on a closed cinema.