LIVE | Germans mostly stayed away from border towns on Saturday | Inland

The cities along the borders with Germany did not, as was feared, to deal with great crowds by German bargain hunters on Saturday. It was “relatively quiet” in Enschede. Especially because Germany itself has designated most regions in the Netherlands as a risk area. The bad weather may also play a role here, said a spokesman for the municipality.

Cities such as Venlo and Roermond also saw few German day trippers. In Heerlen it was busier in the parking lots around the furniture boulevard, mainly because of Germans from the Aachen region.

Cities such as Venlo, Winterswijk and Enschede had called on the Germans on Friday not to come on Saturday. In Germany, the reunification of the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany will be commemorated 30 years ago on Saturday. Traditionally, tens of thousands of Germans cross the border to shop in the Netherlands on 3 October. This leads to great crowds in the border cities. The call to stay away seems to have had an effect.

According to a spokeswoman for the South Limburg security region, it remained quiet in this part of Limburg on Saturday. “It hasn’t been overly busy here,” she said. It was also quieter than normal in East Gelderland. “The call not to come has been well answered,” said a spokesman for the North and East Gelderland security region.

According to a spokesperson for the municipality of Roermond, 2 out of 5 people wore a face mask in the shops in the city center. In the Designer Outlet in Roermond, which is popular with Germans, a mouth cap was mandatory. According to the spokesman, this was well observed.

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