Overview

• Courts handled 14 Malieveld riot cases in supersnelrecht, issuing sentences that included two-week suspended jail terms with 60 hours of community service and a highest penalty of six weeks’ jail, three weeks suspended.
• A total of 37 people were arrested over the violence, and an examining magistrate extended pretrial detention for six suspects by fourteen days while one slated for a hearing was released but remains a suspect.
• Police said a large-scale investigation is underway and signaled plans to publish recognizable images after a public appeal on Opsporing Verzocht, following earlier use of tear gas and water cannon to restore order.
• The VNG, led by Utrecht mayor Sharon Dijksma, demanded urgent cabinet action and national regie, citing 2,075 people crammed into Ter Apel overnight and €350,000 in fines already imposed on COA.
• Local tensions continued as Noordwijk police cleared a church square during an azc meeting without arrests, and Amersfoort paused proposed sites after tumult and threats against mayor Lucas Bolsius.