In practice, it therefore appears difficult to collect evidence, the municipality notes. However, an official report was drawn up five times, in which a replanting obligation was imposed at the same time. Those processes were not all processed by the Public Prosecution Service due to a lack of evidence, but in all cases a tree was planted back. “Sometimes sometimes a conversation was enough,” says the municipality, but in other cases an order subject to periodic penalty payments was imposed.
Illegal tree felling in Utrecht barely punished, ‘collecting evidence virtually impossible’
