Overview
- Workers placing furniture in the Pastoorsmast building discovered a fireworks mortar and a suspected pipe bomb inside the site being prepared as an asylum seekers centre.
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams examined the devices and confirmed they were real, after which police sealed off the area and deployed specialists to investigate.
- The incident included a small deliberate fire and a broken window, and it is the third reported act of vandalism at the property.
- A small group of local opponents asked the court in Den Bosch to suspend the centre's opening, pursuing a limited legal challenge to the municipality's plans.
- The municipality says it received more than a thousand formal objections but many objectors could not join the court case due to residency rules, and preparations for a summer opening continue under heightened security and scrutiny.