Posted on 01/24/2021 11:29:42 PM PST by knighthawk
Around 200 people have been arrested, mostly in Amsterdam, after riots broke out in at least 10 cities across the Netherlands on Sunday evening.
Trouble first flared in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, where anti-coronavirus measure protestors turned up to demonstrate even though the gatherings had been banned.
As the 9pm curfew approached, gangs of youths began attacking police in several other cities, including Tilburg and Enschede, where youngsters threw stones at the local hospital. It was forced to call in extra security.
Although the protests were ostensibly to protest about the curfew and other coronavirus measures, commentators said many appeared to be young men out to cause trouble.
‘This is not demonstrating, I would call these people corona hooligans,’ Hubert Bruls, chairman of the regional safety board association told television chat show Op1.
Riot police were drafted in to The Hague’s Schilderswijk district after fires were started. In Helmond around 50 youngsters gathered together after a call to demonstrate on Snapchat. ‘There were around 50 youngsters, who threw stones and fireworks at police,’ a police spokesman told broadcaster NOS.
In Venlo too, a group of mainly young men threw rocks at police and broke shop windows, and there were also disturbances in Stein and Roermond. In Tilburg there were at least 19 arrests and it took until around midnight to restore order. A reporter for local paper Brabants Dagblad had to flee after being attacked by a group of some 15 men.
Police were also called in to deal with protestors in Oosterhout, Almelo, Venlo, Helmond, Breda, Arnhem and Apeldoorn, broadcasters RTL and NOS said.
Amsterdam
Earlier in the day, around 100 people were arrested in Amsterdam and at least 30 in Eindhoven after riot police were drafted in to break up illegal demonstrations.
In Eindhoven, police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a crowd of several hundred people on the 18 Septemberplein.. Train services to and from Eindhoven were also disrupted and station shops plundered as gangs of youths went on the rampage.
In Amsterdam several hundred people went to the Museumplein to protest about the curfew despite warnings to stay away. Here too, police used water cannon and dogs to break up the crowd and the skirmished continued well into the evening.
Fines
On Saturday night, the first curfew in the Netherlands since the end of World War II, police arrested 25 people and handed out 3,600 fines for curfew violations.
Riot police were also called out to deal with trouble in the staunchly Protestant former island of Urk and in Stein in Limburg.
The Netherlands has been in lockdown since mid December, when schools and non-essential shops were closed. Bars and restaurants were closed in October when the second wave of coronavirus infections began.
Ah, yutes.
Some footage of the riots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWHJHmjHTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iytgT6AD0
I live close to Eindhoven and Venlo but here it’s quiet.
Anyone know why the Whitehouse just went dark about 30 mins ago?
BTTT
Styxhexenhammer is safe—”even libertarians”?
Styx is back stateside.
these rioters are not moslems.
i suspect that Spring this year will be much worse than last year for rioting.
My advice for people in North America, and probably everywhere: Portland and Hamburg are the future. GET OUT of the big cities !
In Amsterdam they call it rioting. Huh.
The ones on video not. But for some reason they do not show footage of the Moroccan youths (yes they are muslims) plundering stores in Eindhoven, Venlo and Roermond. I have received a lot of phone video’s of that. But looks like the media does not want to mention all that. In the text it’s mentioned Den Haag, the Schilderswijk quarter. This is nicknamed “sharia-triangle”...
Thanks for posting.. need to check i. W my future daughter in law.
“But for some reason they do not show footage of the Moroccan youths (yes they are muslims) plundering stores in Eindhoven, Venlo and Roermond. “
I suspected that. My point is that other-than-moslem rioters, in addition to the usual euro-moslem mayhem, is bad news for larger scale rioting later this year.
It won’t be limited to “youths” burning cars.
Biden pi$$ed on the breaker box?
I’m sure they were in the stores to pick up job applications, just as American “teens” do late at night.
Can you imagine the sound of 1000’s of wooden shoes marching up and down the street ? its maddening !!
lmao
On marching charging feet, boy? Just wait until Summer is here and the time is right for fighting in the street.
Good news for challenges to COVID restrictions though maybe.
“Good news for challenges to COVID restrictions though maybe.”
I doubt it. Like 2020, lockdown protestors arrested and charged. Woke protests allowed, regardless of the level of criminality.
Dutch authorities criticized the rioters for not just having a demonstration...but the authorities had already forbidden any anti-covid demonstrations or protests, so what did they expect? Prohibit people from speaking and they go to action.
As for the identity of the rioters, some were probably Muslim yutes just gong out to do what they do best, but the majority looked to me like native Dutch. The article even mentions that there was rioting in a couple of cities that were “staunchly Protestant” (in other words, no immigrants).
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