Overview
- Mayor Marco Out revoked the Pegida demonstration minutes before its 14:00 start after TCI police intelligence indicated risks to participant safety and public order.
- The planned action included a Koran burning by Pegida leader Edwin Wagensveld outside the Assen courthouse.
- Police expanded their presence, enforced a parking ban with towing, and cordoned areas, and a suspicious bag near the Drents Museum proved a false alarm.
- Three people were arrested around the canceled event—two for violating an area ban and one for setting off fireworks—with all later released.
- RUG professor Jan Brouwer said such bans are often overturned by judges, while Pegida vowed to return and the mayor called for a reassessment of allowing deliberately inflammatory tactics.