The municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk has extended an emergency ordinance to ban conspiracy thinkers from the cemetery in Bodegraven by one month. With this measure, the council wants to prevent the grave rest from being violated.
The emergency ordinance was set up in March after supporters of the conspiracy theorists placed dozens of bouquets and notes at children’s graves in the municipal cemetery. Conspiracy theorists believe that the children were murdered satanically in the 1980s.
In a letter to the city council, mayor Van der Kamp van Bodegraven-Reeuwijk writes that the emergency ordinance has proved effective. An extension is necessary, he says, to prevent new disturbances.
Central place
“The emergency ordinance allowed supporters of conspiracy theories to be banned and no new disturbances have taken place in the cemetery,” the mayor writes. “However, flowers, cards and folders have been placed at other locations within the municipality and graffiti has been sprayed. The allegations, curses and calls on social media are still continuing.”
According to the mayor, it is likely that the cemetery will again become a central place of action when the emergency ordinance expires. “This creates the fear that this will again lead to disturbances in or around the cemetery.”
The city council has agreed to extend the emergency ordinance until July 30. The emergency ordinance states that the cemetery may only be visited by first-, second- and third-degree relatives of a deceased person, reports Broadcasting West. Visitors must register in advance and ID is required. An exception is only made for attending a funeral.
Incitement and Threat
The municipality is pursuing a lawsuit against three conspiracy theorists who claim that ‘satanic-ritual infanticides’ were committed in the municipality in the 1980s.
One of these three, Wouter R., was arrested by the police judge this week convicted to nine months in prison, three of which are conditional, for making incendiary and threatening videos aimed at RIVM director Jaap van Dissel and the lawyer of the municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk. Nine months had been demanded unconditionally against R..
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