Dutch ministers to resign over prison fire
{{date|September 21, 2006}}
[[Image:SDekker.jpg|thumb|right|Minister Dekker.]]
[[w:The Netherlands|Dutch]] Justice Minister [[w:Piet Hein Donner|Jan Piet Hein Donner]] (from the political party [[w:Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]]) and Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Sybilla Dekker (from the [[w:People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|VVD]]) will resign, the state broadcaster reports, after a report partly blamed them for a fire at a jail in [[w:Amsterdam Schiphol Airport|Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport]] on October 27, 2005, in which 11 illegal immigrants died. The report says that, if the government had adhered to fire regulations, "less or no" people would have died.

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|title=Donner en Dekker treden af
|author=NOS
|pub=NOS
|date=September 21, 2006
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*{{source|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/21/europe/EU_GEN_Netherlands_Airport_Fire.php
|title=Report: Dutch justice, housing ministers will resign over airport fire report
|author=Associated Press
|pub=International Herald Tribune
|date=September 21, 2006}}

*{{source|url=http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=B343984060921
|title=Twee Nederlandse ministers treden af na brand Schiphol
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|date=September 21, 2006
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[[nl:Ministers Donner en Dekker treden af]]
Minister Dekker.
Dutch Justice Minister Jan Piet Hein Donner (from the political party CDA) and Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment Sybilla Dekker (from the VVD) will resign, the state broadcaster reports, after a report partly blamed them for a fire at a jail in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on October 27, 2005, in which 11 illegal immigrants died. The report says that, if the government had adhered to fire regulations, "less or no" people would have died.

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