Vlaams Belang demands appropriate measures to prevent riots, such as outbreaks in and around the Ghent student district Overpoort on Friday night 17 September. "The riots did not come as a surprise," says Flemish MP and Ghent city councillor Johan Deckmyn. "On the other hand, it was surprising that the police were so ill-prepared.

This event is absolutely not worth repeating." Owners of several businesses at the Overpoort had organized a private party on Friday evening, which is possible according to the corona rules. "For example, a maximum of 200 people were allowed to be present and you only came in by invitation," deckmyn said. "However, parties on reservation are not for everyone, and an hour after brawls with Dutch people, a hundred immigrant northern French and Brussels rioters arrived. And that while there were only a few officers in the Overpoort."" The fact that only a few administrative arrests were made after the heavy riots at the Overpoort in Ghent is telling"Johan Deckmyn surveyed yesterday during the General Affairs Committee at Ghent mayor Mathias De Clercq (Open Vld) about measures to deal with problems at the Overpoort in the future. "Unfortunately, it was just meaningless answers," Deckmyn said. "For example, he stated that the police were sufficiently present, but from now on their presence should be scaled up, thus contradicting himself. And in addition, he refused to answer my question whether, as after the riots at the Blaarmeersen, he would contact the Mayors of Brussels again."" In response to the unacceptable events at the Overpoort, this is more than insufficient," deckmyn concludes. "Ghent students must be able to party in complete safety and must be adequately protected against northern French and Brussels 'young people', as the amok-making criminal aliens are nowadays called."