At the town hall of Pekela in Oude Pekela there is a pro-asylum seeker demonstration early in the morning. Thirty people take action against the municipal decree 130 to send asylum seekers away after complaints about crime and incidents. The activists believe that the wrong people are being punished. There is a small group of opponents of the demonstration that occasionally have the slogan ‘AZC Taking Away‘ calls out, but it does not come to a confrontation.
De neonazigroep KNN organizes a short demonstration in Oude Pekela under the slogan “Municipality Pekela is tired!“. This is an action against "the misconduct of inhabitants of the AZC”. They give examples of theft, assault and bite by an applicant. There are forty people show up, but it's only a few of Oude Pekela originating. De KNN writes that she was able to gather around the eighty signatures. Who wants to KNN to showcase local politics. Other neo-Nazi groups to come back also call on their supporters to here. These are De Nationalist from Ravenstein in the Brass Knuckle Brotherhood. Marcel Flink the company talks to. The group UWSH shows interest in this action. Someone wearing a Celtic Cross Flag in blood flag colors, and there are banners with texts “Patriotism is not racism” en “Do not be passive become active!“. A newspaper that writes about this event reports that a division of Soldiers of Odin was founded in Oude Pekela. Op 23 September decided the municipality Pekela to quickly reduce the number of residents of the AZC 500 to 200 people. The reason is the turmoil surrounding the AZC.
On the internet writes the KNN: “Today we have, together with the neighborhood prevention team, walked a round through Oude Pekela. Mainly through the center and the park of Oude Pekela. This has been very well received. Especially because of the older people who actually did not want to walk through the park without guidance. We will continue to do this and we will show our faces!“. Write in a different place KNN that two people of KNN have taken heights at the AZC, after a drunk resident of the AZC harassed someone. After twenty minutes, six officers come to watch.
Then there is the story about a popular rise at the AZC Oude Pekela, that may have interfaces with the above stories. Because after a call on a social medium, about a hundred people gather on a parking lot at an AZC on Wednesday evening Oude Pekela. It is a spontaneous protest against the reception of asylum seekers by both citizens and a group of neo-Nazis of the radical group KNN. It is the activists ‘sat‘ that asylum seekers ‘can go ahead'. The mayor announces a temporary emergency ordinance because of the group with flags, banners and masks suddenly on the street unexpectedly. Here the KNN flyers out with the call to Saturday 17 september to come to a new demonstration.
In Oude Pekela organizes neo-Nazi group KNN a demonstrative protest against "asylum abuse". There are members of De Nationalist en DTG present. A woman DTG gives a speech. There are about one hundred participants, often from radically right-hand corner. A participant has his car painted with slogans like “Rutte fuck” en “Stem PVV”. The atmosphere is tense and the police shut down a road to a refugee center.
De neonazigroep KNN is organizing an information day at an undisclosed location. Participants need to collect at a supermarket Oude Pekela. explained at the meeting itself where KNN stands. The agenda of this year and the plans for 2016 discussed.
A newspaper writes that in the center of Oude Pekela racist slogans scrawled on buildings. The target of the slogans are refugees in Netherlands. In Oude Pekela has sixteen years AZC and the local population is known to be tolerant.
De PVV state with a booth at the fair in Oude Pekela to distribute their material. They also collect statements of support for EU referendum GeenStijl en GeenPeil.
A newspaper reports that residents of Oude Pekela call for a vigilante to combat the nuisance of asylum seekers. On the internet, they share negative experiences about asylum seekers who display undesirable behavior. In a pamphlet, some residents ask for volunteers for a serious vigilante. They don't want racists or thrill seekers.
At the Liberation in Groningen a group of more than twenty Eritrean boys is sent from the festival site. It concerns unaccompanied minor asylum seekers from an AZC Oude Pekela with two supervisors. The festival says it looked like two boys wanted to pickpocket. After this, the entire group is removed. It is denied that they wanted to pickpocket. The festival is investigating whether this concerns discrimination.
In the municipality Pekela is at the town hall in Oude Pekela At a protest organized in the evening at a reception center. There were about fifty people showed up, including several right-wing extremists. Some of them come from the ranks of Blood & Honour Nederland, Divisie Noordland.
Police arrest Saturday night a 32-year old man from Oude Pekela in a pub Stadskanaal repeatedly bringing the Hitler salute and chanting slogans extreme right. The doormen ask to leave the man, but he scolds them for racists and refuses to go. Using pepper spray more policemen to keep the man.
In Oude Pekela become the stolen overnight two bricked stumbling stones in the sidewalk. These are memorial stones for a Jewish couple who was killed by the Nazi terror in World War II. The stones were just added.
After the brawl of 5 May at the fair in Pekela assails this evening a group of about 150 Angry villagers in the asylum center Oude Pekela. Police are trying to stop them because they want revenge and shout insults at the asylum. A number of people seeking to enter the AZC-site. Creates a grim situation and there is a window of a medical post is thrown.
On the fair in Pekela is the liberation party marred by a mass fight between a large group of Brine wrappers with a group of refugees from the AZC. It would chains and sticks have been used. Op 7 may this incident gets a tail.