Posted on 01/25/2021 11:13:00 PM PST by knighthawk
Riot police were called out to cities across the Netherlands on Monday evening in a third night of rioting following the introduction of a curfew to try to stop the spread of coronavirus.
By the time things had quietened down, 151 people had been arrested, police said. Police chief Willem Woelders told current affairs programme Nieuwsuur: ‘Things were relatively quiet until 7.30pm, but then all hell broke lose.’
In Haarlem and Rotterdam police threatened to used tear gas to break up the crowds, and extra riot police were drafted in, Woelders said. In Amersfoort, fireworks were thrown at police and there were also problems in Den Bosch, where a group of up to 150 youngsters had gathered in defiance of the 9pm curfew, and a Jumbo supermarket was plundered.
In Rotterdam, mayor Achmed Aboutaleb evoked his emergency powers and called in riot police with water cannon after trouble broke out in the south of the city. There were some 60 arrests.
RTV Oost reported that gangs of youngsters were running through the centre of Zwolle and there were clashes with police in the north of Helmond. In Zeeland province, six people were arrested in Goes and Kattendijke after calling on people to riot via social media.
Police in Noord-Holland province said they had arrested five people who had called online for riots in Purmerend, Hoorn and Alkmaar. In Amsterdam, there were at least nine arrests after trouble erupted in the east of the city.
In Gouda, the mayor also evoked his emergency powers after several cars were set on fire. There were also arrests in Geelen, in Limburg, including several minors, police said.
Weekend
Monday evening’s trouble follows disturbances on Sunday as protestors staged demonstrations against the coronavirus rules in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.
Up to 300 people were arrested as riot police were drafted in to break up the crowds. In Eindhoven, station shops were looted and police used tear gas in an effort to disperse the demonstrators.
On Saturday night, the first day of the 9pm curfew, there were disturbances on the former island of Urk, where protesters set fire the the coronavirus testing centre, and in Stein in Limburg.
Condemnation
Prime minister Mark Rutte described the violence that accompanied anti-lockdown protests in some Dutch towns and cities on Sunday as ‘unacceptable’.
Rutte said 99% of people were complying with the stricter new rules, including the 9pm curfew that came into force on Saturday.
He singled out the vandalism in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, as well as Enschede where a hospital building came under attack, for special condemnation. ‘Any normal person will look at this with disgust and ask themselves what possessed these people,’ Rutte said. ‘This has nothing to do with protesting: it is criminal violence and that is how we will treat it.
*Youngsters* eh?
Yutes ?
I’m thinking.....
See post 4.
[station shops were looted]
Gee that sounds familiar.
[station shops were looted]
Gee that sounds familiar.
Is this worse than previous nights ? Sounds like more cities.
The Dutch allowed their country to become Morocco.
More than once I attended the annual march to honour those who gave their lives in operation Market Garden, the liberation of Arnhen-Osterbeek, Nijmegen and Eindhoven. Then one year the drug dealers and pimps said we no longer had their permission to go that route, and the march had be diverted.
I never went again.
The cop has his knee on that guy’s neck.
Do they not read USA newspapers in Holland?
Is the handcuffed guy on the ground the only white person in the riot?
It appears they have wacky Amish teens over there, too.
With a mayor named Achmed and “youngsters” with too much time on thier hands, this is what they get.
Everything in Holland will look brand new.
Notice the effectiveness of the water cannon? Rioters ran at the sight of them!
“...water cannon? Rioters run at the sight of them.”
It’s cold in Holland in January. You don’t want to get wet in that weather.
I’m not Dutch, so my observations may not carry much weight with the Dutch authorities, but...
It looks to me as if the disturbances pictured are crossing the line from ‘riots’ to ‘civil insurrection’. If so, it is time for a change of tactics. Instead of disbursing the crowds, which only spreads the disorder, it may be time to arrest everyone at the scene, haul them off to processing centers well away from the cities, and hold them until they are identified, and either charged or discharged. It is also time to deploy designated marksmen to neutralize dangerous or deadly threats. And it would seem that the police are inadequate to handle the mobs; it may be time to call in the military.
All this applies to what is happening in Holland, of course. I might have a different opinion if these riots/civil disturbances were happening in the USA, say in my hometown. And our laws are different, anyway.
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