Overview
- Police declared a security risk area in part of Heemskerk, allowing preventive searches from 14:00 to midnight, and municipal facilities closed early due to the protests.
- Roughly 100 people rallied outside Heemskerk’s town hall with ‘Nee azc’ flags and a Prinsenvlag visible, as police set up barriers and separate areas for opponents and a small group of supporters.
- Mayor Alexander Luijten barred the public from the council session on police advice, and officers monitored the square with cameras while a tractor was parked near the entrance.
- Heemskerk and Uitgeest are pursuing an AZC at Tolweg for about 312 people targeted for late 2027 and limited to ten years, with a VVD motion seeking to delay decisions until after the March local elections and a provincial exemption already granted for temporary building in protected landscape.
- In Nieuw-Lekkerland, about 150 new anti-AZC flags were added to roughly 50 already hanging, a petition neared 3,000 signatures, four sites are under study for up to 251 people, and a demonstration is announced for 9 February.