The police have already issued more than ten thousand fines for violating the corona rules, writes de Volkskrant Thursday. Municipal enforcers (boas) have also drawn up thousands of official reports. According to the newspaper, the number of fines also increases the resistance to the corona fines.
The majority of the tickets issued are violations of the ban on gathering or the one and a half meter rule. On it are high fines: 95 euros for young people from thirteen to seventeen years and 390 euros for adults.
Some of the people who have received a traffic ticket walk according to de Volkskrant to court. The reason for the objections is the lack of clarity about the emergency regulations. The measures enacted by the Cabinet to convert the security regions into an emergency ordinance are not always clear and open to interpretation.
The appeals are likely to succeed, thinks professor of constitutional law Jan Brouwer. “That ban on meetings is very confusing and sometimes contradictory,” he said in the newspaper. “Those emergency regulations are not always watertight.”
Gray area in emergency ordinances
Hubert Bruls, mayor of Nijmegen and chairman of the Security Council, acknowledged Tuesday that the emergency ordinances can be confusing and that there is a “gray area”.
“But that is always the case. Just look at all kinds of provisions that we have in our local ordinance. Most laws are not so black and white, and that keeps our country nicely livable,” says Bruls.
“The bottom line is that you maintain when there are really excesses. When people really wantonly break the rules. Groups of young people who keep coming together and don’t want to listen. Someone who organizes a party with a hundred people.”
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