With the Dutch squatters movement regularly in the news for events such as the Vondelstraat eviction resistance and the Amsterdam coronation riots, De Blauwe Aanslag was occupied in 1980.

[1] The owner, the Dutch state, tried to evict the squatters by turning off the electricity but eventually sold the building to the Hague council.

[3] The Bunker record label came out of parties at De Blauwe Aanslag, releasing artists like Legowelt and Unit Moebius.

[6] Some inhabitants of De Blauwe Aanslag and some friends of theirs were offered the opportunity by the Hague council to buy an old school on Waldeck Pyrmontkade and renovate it.

[3] In 2013, ten years after De Blauwe Aanslag had been evicted and demolished, Joris Wijsmuller from the Haagse Stadspartij (a political party in the Hague) asked the council why the ground had still not been built on.