Earlier, we reported on the problem that Dutch bus drivers are having with unruly passengers from asylum centers in the town of Ter Apel, where the country's largest asylum center is for refugees. Many of these so-called refugees (mostly from nations not at war) refuse to pay and some have abused the drivers. Last month, Ter Apel set up a segregated bus service just for asylum-seekers (HT Jihad Watch).
That has failed to solve the problem, and now, drivers are refusing to make stops where the asylum-seekers wait for buses.
The below article from WNL.TV is translated by Fousesquawk.
Good Morning Netherlands, 2 Dec. 2021, 10:51
Bus drivers take action due to nuisance of (safe country) asylum-seekers: "This can no longer be tolerated".
Bus drivers who work on the Qbuzz lines 72 and 73 between Emmen and Ter Apel are taking action Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for a safer work environment. The drivers are fed up with years of threats and abuse, mostly by asylum-seekers on the lines. That is the position of Edwin Kuiper, director of FNV Regional Transport.
The bus drivers earlier this week asked Qbuzz whether more security could be deployed on the buses and stops to prevent violent incidents. They received no answer. For this reason, the drivers will skip bus stops in Ter Apel in the coming days. Therefore, there is no bus traffic between Emmen and Ter Apel on lines 72 and 73.
I spoke recently with a bus driver who had just begun his shift. "At 7 in the morning, there were 5 annoying people at the bus stop who didn't want to pay, made things difficult, and caused a nuisance," Kuiper told Good Morning, Netherlands on NPO 1. "The bus driver had to call for assistance; finally it arrived. At any rate, that led to delays and bad humor".
According to Kuiper, it involved 5 (safe country) asylum-seekers from the asylum center. "That is something heard way too often," he says. (Safe country) asylum-seekers are asylum-seekers who have no chance of getting residence status because they come from a safe home country.
"Can no longer be tolerated"
JA21 party chairman Joost Eerdmans visited the asylum center in Ter Apel and the transporters about 3 weeks ago. "It is absolutely correct that they no longer do this," he told Good Morning Netherlands on NPO 1. "It is unacceptable, for these people, it can no longer be tolerated. Neither Qbuzz nor Arriva (the train) are intervening. The people are completely frustrated over what they are going through".
According to Eerdmans, caretaker state secretary Ankie Brokers-Knol (Justice and Security) has "totally ignored it", he says. "She should have intervened. There is also a shuttle bus, just for asylum-seekers, and there it happens all too often. There the government must stand out front."
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