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Noise protest ‘No 4 May for me’ rightly forbidden during commemoration | NOW

Acting Mayor Jozias van Aartsen of Amsterdam rightly banned a noise demonstration during Remembrance Day in 2018. The Council of State (RvS) ruled this on appeal on Wednesday.

The action group ‘No 4 May for me’ wanted to make noise during the national Remembrance Day on the Dam.

Van Aartsen banned the demonstration and a day before the commemoration, an administrative judge ruled that this ban was justified. An alternative plan to sound an air raid just before the two-minute silence was also rejected. Rogier Meijerink, organizer of ‘No May 4 for me’, was also banned from territory.

Meijerink appealed against the decision of the administrative judge, but on Wednesday the RvS ruled that there was enough ground for a ban on the demonstration.

According to the judge, the noise protest would have taken on such a compelling form for all those present on the Dam, putting the ‘common opinion’ in the background. The right to demonstrate as stated in the Constitution therefore did not apply to this demonstration.

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