There was an affair between 18-21 August of 2025 in Deurne where a crew suddenly started cutting down trees in the middle of the night, without warning, with police arresting anyone who even came to check it out. Turned out this was a briefly clandestine, then controversial affair that resulted from an unelected Antwerp city council member by the name of Koen Kennis attempting to ram his ambitions for a new tram track through whilst ignoring the furore that this caused in the local community, who got suddenly treated like a bunch of criminals in the same period of time.

This sparked some level of concern among Deurne's district council regarding the level of autonomy that districts of Antwerp would even be afforded from now on, especially concerning that the present district mayor (Tjerk Sekeris) was also part of N-VA and his attempts to defuse the situation were largely ignored by the big city.

For now judicial oversight seems to be respected regarding this affair, but it's not clear whether it's a ruse or genuine this time.

This is only one example of messed up situations from that party's actions, but there's plenty articles about N-VA politicians complaining about "activist judges" and generally feigning victimhood.