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A fire has been started in a home of a Syrian asylum seeker in Zwijndrecht. There are several fires in the home. It starts in the morning, if the resident is not at home. The window of the back door appears to have been smashed. The refugee lives there for six months, his family was meant to join him.

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The news comes out that a mosque was vandalized in last week Zwijndrecht.

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The Board for the Protection of Human Rights express its opinion on two cases brought by a Muslim man on a scaffold builder from Zwartewaal and an employment agency from Zwijndrecht. He works in January 2013 through the agency of the scaffold builder at a workplace where heavy resistance requirements. Because of this he can not pray regularly and he feels discriminated against because of his religion. He loses his appointment. The College sees indirect discrimination on grounds of religion, but considers that this is justified by security considerations. So there is no prohibited discrimination on grounds of religion made.

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The board of the Islamic Unity Party reports that the party is withdrawing from the municipal elections in Zwijndrecht. The party leader is seriously threatened. It is about “persistent and very serious threats” and he no longer dares to take to the street. The children of the party leader are also mentioned as targets. The three other politicians on the candidate list threw in the towel earlier this week. The tweets are not legal threats, according to the police. A threatener would have been arrested, but the criminal case against this person has been dropped.