Third night of protests against the lockdown and clashes in the Netherlands. “Many small groups are destroying things” in the northern city of Groningen, a police spokesman said, adding that riot officers have been deployed to “restore order”. Riots also in Enschede, Leeuwarden and Tilburg, according to local media. Protesters lit fireworks and vandalized private property in the Dutch cities of Groningen and Leeuwarden in the north, Enschede in the east and Tilburg in the south, police said. Authorities have issued an emergency warning in Enschede, near the German border, ordering people to stay away from the streets, police said on Twitter. ” Five people have just been arrested in the city center for incitement and public violence. Our appeal is to go home. ”A football match in the nearby town of Leeuwarden was interrupted after fans, who were banned from playing due to Covid restrictions, threw fireworks into the ground. The riots in the Netherlands began on Friday evening when a demonstration against the pandemic rules in the port city of Rotterdam turned into a full-scale riot in which police opened fire and four people injured by bullets. following, rioters threw fireworks and stones at the police and burned bicycles and mopeds in The Hague.No vax protests throughout Europe, clashes in Brussels– The protest of the no vax in Europe is becoming more and more violent. After another night of clashes and arrests in the Netherlands, it was also an afternoon of urban warfare on the streets of Brussels, where 35,000 people gathered to demonstrate against the new anti-Covid restrictions introduced by the Belgian government. A march started peacefully but degenerated into harsh clashes after a group of demonstrators threw objects against the police, who responded by using water cannons and tear gas to disperse them. The violence took place in the heart of the Belgian capital, a short distance from the buildings of the European Union and the embassies of the United States and Russia. Waving nationalist flags of Flanders and banners against the more restrictive rules for the unvaccinated, several people hidden by hoods also attacked some police cars. At least two officers and one protester were injured. The march, called ‘Together for freedom’, was organized in particular against the ban on access to bars and restaurants imposed on those who refused the anti-Covid serum. Belgium, which in the last week recorded the record of cases in a year, with an average of almost 10,300 per day, and has a hospital occupancy rate at its highest since May, with a quarter of patients in intensive care, has also extended permits to work from home. New stricter rules similar to those adopted or being studied in much of the Old Continent, which for some weeks now has become the global epicenter of the pandemic according to the World Health Organization, which just yesterday feared the risk of another 500,000 deaths by March without urgent measures to combat the virus. In the last week, 90% of the countries with the greatest increases in infections (among those with over a thousand cases per day) and in Europe. The increase in cases is also becoming increasingly alarming in France, where the government spokesman today spoke of a “dazzling” increase, with new patients doubling in a week but limited effects thanks to the high number of vaccinated people. The new waves have prompted a tightening of measures, especially in countries with lower vaccination rates. As in Austria, where the number of people immunized with two doses is the lowest in Western Europe and the generalized lockdown will return from tomorrow, a week after introducing the one for unvaccinated only, while from February 1st the vaccination obligation will come into force. After the great demonstration that yesterday brought together 35 thousand people in Vienna, many also from neighboring countries such as Italy and Germany, a new procession of about 6 thousand people marched today in Linz, where no accidents were recorded. Clashes at anti-lockdown demonstrations were repeated in the Netherlands. After the “orgy of violence” in Rotterdam, the one between Saturday and Sunday was a second night of clashes in different cities, with a toll of dozens of arrests and five officers injured. Dutch security forces used water cannons, police dogs and mounted officers to stop the demonstrators, who set fires and threw stones: five of them were injured in The Hague, where the highest number of detentions was recorded. Other riots occurred in two cities in the southern province of Limburg, in the city of Urk and in the northern province of Flevoland. Clashes and arrests also continued last night in Guadeloupe, in the French Antilles, where authorities reported another 38 arrests and the wounding of two officers. Violence and looting that have been repeated for days and have prompted Paris to send about fifty special forces agents as reinforcements. in the French Antilles, where the authorities reported another 38 arrests and the wounding of two officers. Violence and looting that have been repeated for days and have prompted Paris to send about fifty special forces agents as reinforcements. in the French Antilles, where the authorities reported another 38 arrests and the wounding of two officers. Violence and looting that have been repeated for days and have prompted Paris to send about fifty special forces agents as reinforcements.
