Aalten, a little town of 27,000 people tucked away in the farmland of the southeast Netherlands, is the unlikely home of the Australian rock legend Angus Young.
Just over a decade ago, the AC/DC guitarist and his Dutch wife, Ellen, bemused residents by building a large neo-renaissance villa there — complete with a sculpted head with devil’s horns and stained glass decorated with a lightning bolt.
This year, however, the people of Aalten learnt of a rather more controversial building project a couple of miles from Young’s mansion: a housing complex for 300 asylum seekers planned for a farmer’s field on the edge of town.
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