Overview

• Overnight occupancy at Ter Apel reached about 2,075 people, pushing the COA’s court-backed fines to roughly €350,000.
• Keijzer told parliament she is ordering about 2,000 nareizigers with relatives in rental homes to leave AZCs immediately to open capacity, a step Westerwolde’s mayor says may not address overlast by veiligelanders.
• The Association of Dutch Municipalities sent an urgent letter to the demissionary cabinet warning the situation is running out of control and demanding immediate national regie and political cover; the prime minister’s office says it will first study the letter.
• Local resistance is derailing capacity plans: Amersfoort has provisionally withdrawn two proposed AZC sites after turbulent meetings, Noordwijk police dispersed a crowd outside an AZC meeting, and COA dropped a Voorhout shelter plan over an unviable business case.
• After the Malieveld unrest tied to asylum protests, 14 suspects faced fast‑track hearings today, with initial verdicts including two‑week suspended jail terms and 60 hours of community service as prosecutors sought stiffer sentences in some cases.