Mayors of large cities in the province of North Brabant also want the possession of fireworks to be banned this New Year. This can improve enforcement of the fireworks ban. The Eindhoven mayor John Jorritsma says in it AD that extraordinary investigating officers (boas) regularly encounter people who say that they have fireworks alone. “And then you can’t do anything,” said Jorritsma.
Jorritsma, who is also chairman of the Brabant-Southeast security region, fears that people across the border will buy their fireworks and set them off in the Netherlands.
“Together with my colleagues Theo Weterings from Tilburg and Jack Mikkers from Den Bosch, I have emphatically argued for a national fireworks ban. That has been achieved. But it must be arranged that we can properly implement that ban,” emphasizes the Eindhoven mayor.
Paul Depla van Breda also supports the call. The mayors prefer to see sales to Dutch customers prohibited in Belgium. “It would make a big difference for safety and clarity to all residents if the countries coordinate their affairs,” Weterings said in the newspaper.
Due to the crowds in Dutch hospitals due to the corona virus, no fireworks may be sold or set off. The Dutch are allowed to buy a maximum of 25 kilos of fireworks abroad and take them home.
Earlier this week, mayor Mark Slinkman of the Gelderland border municipality of Berg en Dal also argued for a one-time import ban on fireworks from Germany.
A week ago, State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven (Infrastructure) announced that the cabinet’s fireworks compensation of 40 million euros. That money is intended to pay for personnel costs, the lack of turnover and extra costs such as transport.
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